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Submitted by G. N. Solomon
Write a story, poem, or descriptive paragraph centred around glass breaking.
Make sure to think about all the sensory details, metaphors, and analogies associated with breaking glass.
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you bit into your apple, skin crunching like bone
your rosy cheeks puffing out slightly as you chew
I can hear my pulse rattling through my ribs
blood rushes through my veins as I unfurl my hands and offer you my heart
your snickers cut through my soul like a knife
"no." you say. "you're ugly. disgusting"
your eyes no longer look like gentle waves. they feel more like a tempest
"your teeth are co...
Im battered and bruised
Hurt like no other
The glass has shattered
Between me and my mother
I hope to be fixed
I hope to be fine
I hope to be repaired
Its not going to happen
As I sit here and cry on the floor
Hoping you don’t come knocking on my door
My tears are being shed
When I sit here and wish you were dead
My heart is shattered
Like the picture of us
My clothes are tattered
I’ve been poked ...
i’m just
breaking
breaking
until i’m
broken.
as broken
as the glass
on the table,
reminding me
of how hard he
slammed
the door
when he
left.
i keep
faking
faking
until i’m
not.
until i can
shut the door
and let down
my walls
and cry
and cry
tears of glass
cutting down
my cheeks
until my eyes
are swollen
and my cheeks
sting
from the slice
of the
tears.
i avoid
speaking
speaking
until i think
i ...
“You love that boy, don’t you?”
Yes. Yes I do.
In fact I have for years,
But I’ve ended in tears.
I’m me.
And he is him.
I’m no one to his glorious eyes.
It’s broken glass
Scattered across the floor.
Every time I see him
It’s like I step on a piece.
My breath immediately taken-
But then the pain comes next
Knowing I’ll never
Be anything but worthless.
I’ve tried to speak to him,
But we...
You see me as glass,
so fragile and breakable.
But what if that's my choice?
When I break, it’s you who’s left bleeding.
You who picks up the pieces and cuts yourself with the jagged edges.
It’s you who deals with the mess.
If I’m glass, that means when I crash, I take you down with me,
And all the world will hear my final scream.
Perhaps I am the fragile one,
but it's you who suffers the pain....
Sometimes when we hear glass shatter it’s followed by cheers of Mazel Tov! Or laughter as everyone in a restaurant enjoys the spectacle of a destroyed glass or plate. When it happens at home, people are concerned, immediately sweeping it off the floor for everyone’s safety. But there are some situations where glass breaking is a bad thing, a very bad thing.
I arrived at the lab late that morning....
My heart is glass
Fragile
Beautiful
Easily breakable
Treat it carefully
Or it will shatter
And cut you
My heart is glass
Vicious when broken
Splintered and shattered
But when given willingly
It’s a gift
A beautiful,
Lovely gift
So treat my heart carefully
If I give it to you,
Don’t crush it
Because if you crush it,
There’s no guarantee that I can piece back together again
Written by MaxMayfi...
O heart of glass, o shattered soul,
My love, tell me, who hurt thee so?
Whose daggers stabbed thy tender breast?
Who broke thy heart of glass?
Thou wert a chalice filled with wine,
He emptied thee, called himself "thine",
Then raised his fist and brought it down
Upon thy heart of glass.
I picked thee up with gentle hands,
The wounds glass caused I did withstand,
My blood, sweat, tears, I used fo...
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