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The Story of Broken Things

May 2, 2019
By Sophia_LaPalme DIAMOND, Loxley, Alabama
Sophia_LaPalme DIAMOND, Loxley, Alabama
57 articles 22 photos 87 comments

Favorite Quote:
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost


I sit alone in the loud silence of my own,

The sound of crashing things surrounds me,

Why must you throw stones at my glass walls?

And at my collapsing throne and buckling home?


Beautiful tragedies stretch out in front of me,

An array of pain, impossible desires, and hurt.

Shattered glass bits of people litter the floor,

All those you have stoned except for me.


She told me to grab your stones in my fist,

To hold them tight and meet your empty eyes.

She told me to stand tall in my glass castle,

Only, she didn’t fight you, she didn’t resist.


It is up to me, now, to let your stones crack my walls,

And shatter them into useless bits of meaningless pain.

I can’t defeat you if I can never touch your calloused hands.

I will shout my demons away in these echoing halls.


I will set my wooden crown on the flames of my

Fireplace, raging with all the truths inside my heart.

My bones are made of stone, we are so alike.

The walls respond to my cries with only a whisper of a sigh.


Tonight, the flames will leap beyond my heart,

They will scorch you and burn you into just ash.

I hold fire in my bones that will set you ablaze,

Didn’t anyone tell you that you can’t break glass without getting cut?


Remember that when glass shards run in your veins,

When fear clamps your stony heart in its fist.

I will bring you to your knees with my smoke,

And knight you with my stone sword.


Then, you will shatter, break, and fall

For you are made of glass, too.

I will break the breaker, the destroyer of love.

I’m not afraid to get cut.


The author's comments:

Enjoy! I felt fierce writing this.


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on May. 9 2019 at 8:05 pm
Sophia_LaPalme DIAMOND, Loxley, Alabama
57 articles 22 photos 87 comments

Favorite Quote:
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

Haha, thank you! I can’t wait to read some more of your things!

on May. 9 2019 at 5:37 pm
Malcolm_Chase PLATINUM, Madison, South Dakota
32 articles 0 photos 161 comments

Favorite Quote:
Not all those who wander are lost
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it
- Confucius

Believe you can and you're halfway there
- Theodore Roosevelt

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
- Albert Camus

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
- Aristotle

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
- Audrey Hepburn

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller

Ooh, well that's ominous! But I really liked it! Great job as always!!!