dVerse Meeting the
Bar Prompt:
Broken
Hearts
Hopes and dreams
Promises
Ideals
Eggs into pieces
Broken
Families
States
Nations
Universes
Climates into pieces
When something breaks
Eggs into a million pieces
Nothing can be fixed
Nothing can be mended
We have forgotten how
We never knew
An instruction book or
A video is required
To put Humpty Dumpty
Together again
In the past you would see
Shops with signs
Boots
Sewing machines
Vacuum cleaners
Jewelry
Tractors
Radios repaired
Good as new
Now nothing is to be repaired
If its’ broken throw it out
Get something new
Nothing is of value
Nothing lasts
...The dump is full of
Broken plastic hearts
July 25, 2014
5 comments:
Yes ...things in good condition are unnecessarily discarded and not valued. The waste is obscene and we will all pay the price one day sooner rather than later.
OH those closing lines, "the dump is full of broken plastic hearts". Plastic is one of the worst inventions, it is cluttering the globe. I always remember how my grandma's furniture, dishes and such never were replaced - they were used for her lifetime. Old, sturdy, serviceable, they lived modestly, and saved. Wow. How appalled they would be at the excesses of today. And what everything costs!
ah i hate that things are not being repaired any more... my mom used to stitch holes in socks even - nowadays you throw everything away way too fast - it's the pulse of our time a bit...sad
Ooh, nicely said. There definitely does not appear to be much mending of broken. While I fall prey to not mending, I tend to continue to wear the holey socks until they are dust.
Radios do take us to a remote past with a different attitude to life that we've long left behind..use and throw is the new motto of a new age...nicely exposed
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