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The Teacup

11/26/2015

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Illustration by Taylor Rose Evans for The Manchester Magazine



A poem by
Corina Motofeanu




The Teacup

I’d like to let it fall, see it plunging, see it smashing

shattering all over the white floor tiles

scattered all around in lumpish fragments

or minute bits which could easily hide

tiny tiny bits that I could never recover

and never glue back together.
 


It deserves this! I’d like to hear it crashing

with a harsh and deafening shriek

that will wander across the air

lost in the limbo of time

vanishing into the surroundings

revealing the fragility lying deep inside.
 


I cradle it completely with both my hands

within its structure it must be wondering

it believes itself to be protected

and inaccessible to the outside world

but my hold slackens, I can feel it

slightly slipping out of my hands.
 


Should I stop it now?

Who am I to intervene?

Who will fathom this collapse?

For I am fearful of the repercussions

the explanations, the blame and reproach,

the stigmatizing look of the gravity oblivious.
 


I will draw attention to myself. Should I risk it?

For now I have put the teacup where it belonged. TMM


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