Finding Beauty in Life's Broken Places

"BROKEN CAN BE BEAUTIFUL"

Titles can be heavy as a burden

As all are not meant to be heroes

And some who are, could have been broken

but, broken can also be beautiful.

Visions of the future,

A gigantic dream

Built on a frail foundation

Only to crumble against the sturdy dreams

but, broken can also be beautiful.

Memories of the past,

A fragment of what has shattered

and devalued like a broken rim of antique vase

but, broken can be beautiful.

Pains of the present

Imprinted on the skin,

A cue to a fractured body

but, broken can also be beautiful.

A broken heart,

A speck of dying star

In the frame of the sky

Still, broken are not necessarily ugly

broken can also be beautiful...

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ARIYO FADLUL-HAKEEM is a Nigerian science student who

graduated from the prestigious Oladipo Alayande School of Science,

Oke Bola, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. He is presently furthering his

education in the Ahmadiyya International University of theological

and scholastic sciences in Ghana. He has his theological articles featured

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