Poem: Broken Art

Broken Bowl. A Pencil Sketch by Nayana Mathradan.

If the one thing that makes us cry

is the one thing we ever loved,

let’s go on with a rainbow thrown

from our tear prisms,

our broken hearts held high

like a flag of glory,

our scars thrown at a canvas

like a piece of art.

Author’s Notes:

© Lirio Marchito. All rights reserved.

An old scribble.

The poem “Broken Art” was originally written and first published on AllPoetry on September 24, 2017.

This poem was also part of my first poetry collection, The Blue Rabbit, published in 2021.