Puzzle

     *Crash*, the sound of a thousand knives filling the air, hurddling toward your numb, dormant body. Glass shatters all across the stain-covered floor. Eyes wide with terror, quickly change to a sad, redenning and teary-eyed face.

 

    "No!" you begin to sob holding the pieces of your world in your hands ever so gently. Recalling the sounds, the feelings that you had at the time that it shattered. You continue to cry as your eyes turn the reddest they can around your pale gray-blue eyes. Your hair pulled back and damp lies limp across your shoulder.

 

     Your hands now sticky with blood from the broken glass, reach out toward the much smaller pieces that lay silent. They sit in the corner by your nightstand, glimmering beautifully in the sunlight. Skaking and keeping your head held high,you manage to recollect the pieces and walk down the stairs, half stumbling down. Entering the kitchen silently, you wait for the reaction of your mother.

 

     *Gasp* She tries to comfort you by telling you a story about the time she broke grandmother's prized owl statues. You try to conjure up a laugh but you can not.

 

     Dragging your feet along the dark, hollow ground. Then you stumble across a piece of fabric, frail and gentle it is torn in many places, but as weak as it is it stands strong with stiches. You tug on it gently to test its ability. It does not tear. It's sewn together  tightly and is perfectly mended.

 

     One last tear streams down your cheek and drops into the piles of glass. Together they form back into there original shape and the music plays softly once more from the music boxes gentle strings.

 

 

      *Like pieces of broken glass, a heart can mend back into one,*

Author's Note

This is a completely true story that happened about an hour ago. Well, besides the tear dripping down and reforming the music box obviously. My mom actually told me there was some glue in her purse and I sat down and glued the pieces back together. It played beautifully once I fixed it.

Reviews

[Mary]

l liked it, i agree with the other reviwers:) it was one of your best loved it!

[MusicJunkie66]

this was great, really vivid.
great job :]

[Daydreamer54]

This was really beautiful.

[Subjective Sanity]

I think it's beautiful. At first I wasn't sure what 'thing' you were describing but, the words were beautiful. I liked it even more when I read your note. You sound like you have a really great mother. : )

[Tracie Skarbo]

Great job of taking something from your life and making music come from it... you have a few spelling mistakes in this but other then that it sang!