No Easy Task

Mending the tears, 

  tiny nicks or 

    great slashes 

of our lives, 

  is no easy task. 

Many, forgotten, 

have been healed by 

  time and 

    understanding. 

Others are hung onto like 

  a well worn buoy 

in a tossing sea. 

To become greater 

  than we believe we are 

and enough for our life will 

  secretly, 

    privately 

mend the tears with 

 the shining, colourful embroidery 

of who we are today.

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, 

easily torn and not easily mended.”

~ Ian McEwan, novelist