Breaking The Glass Poem by gershon hepner

Breaking The Glass



Deliberately we break the glass
which like a virgin’s hymen shatters,
a ritual where, as in a mass,
it’s wine recalling blood that splatters,
but if the glass should fall by chance
there is no ritual can repair
the sorrow caused by loss, romance
alone can deconstruct despair.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Michael Philips 16 August 2005

This conveys violence quite vividly - shattering a virgin's hymen, wine like splattering blood - very visceral.

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