Kintsugi

I am a work of art

I'm a vase

Shattered and rejoined with gold

I am a broken dish

Fragile

Dainty

Porcelain

I'm small fragments put together for daily use

I'm shards lost among the dust

Scattered but brought back

Molten gold, painted on

Binds me together

The tracks of my trauma are visible

Illuminated

Glinting

Declaring

I have fallen

I've been broken

I was maybe whole before

There were holes before

If I'm porcelain

You're the gold

Restoring me in a way

Only you could

I'm whole again

I carry on

I contain all my contents

I can hold things in my heart

I hold you in my heart

I can be beautiful and lovely

I don't have to be ugly

Honest can be pretty

Magnificent

Meaningful

So I share my broken places

I don't hide the damage done

The damage remains

So do I

The damage done is that

Done

But I am

I am a work of art