Broken

With enthusiasm churned out of potent energies 
 Hidden in latent ambition, 
 And saved up hopes of a lifetime
 New Beginnings are made. 
 Bright and sunny, 
 The possibilities sparkle like Sirius 
 Making tomorrow a much awaited 
 Dream worth living for.  

Fate is but unfair, as is life. 
 Often hopes are dashed 
 And dreams shattered 
 Into a million pieces of invisible shrapnel 
 Whose sharp jibes are painful, 
 Constant reminders of a yesterday 
 Gone awry; 
 Never to return or redeem.  

Setting aside the sorrows 
 Of bygone days, 
 And mistaken ways, 
 One more attempt at fate’s roulette 
 To right the wrongs 
 Bestowed by the day before’s 
 Knockout blow to the head
 Is but the norm. 

One more time, the passion is built,
 Another well of hope discovered
 And the foundations of a fresh start laid. 
 Fed with resilience gained from experience 
 The bundles of old grief 
 Exchanged for faith and conviction,
 Another first step of the thousand-mile journey
 Begins with pomp and ceremony.  

As all else on earth, this too ends
 When gravity wins 
 And the hatchet slices through its carotid. 
 A million smithereens of pointy reminders
 Filling each moment with 
 Piercing indications of the debacle
 Lie all around
 Irreversible and very visible.  

How many more times should 
 Such failure one embrace 
 And smile for the benefit of uncaring others? 
 How many times should 
 The joints of one’s precariously glued persona 
 Be reattached meticulously 
 Before one can acknowledge the truth? 
 I am broken!