The Breakdown Poem by Pamesh Kumar

The Breakdown

In childhood, I wonder
What'd be there in the breakdown?
Is just separation, many from single?
Oh! It's Lovely, breaking makes more
Let's break something, something huge
My toys were big enough to disintegrate
Succeeded to break with teared eyes
My mother wasn't happy with my tries
Now at twenty I realized the fact
The mom's shouting all correct
It's easy to break harder to join
Like third side of tossing coin
Things rejoin with certain mark
The mark of endless dark
Breakdown is not a solution
Never to break the threads of relation
Whatever we get a crown
Never to get a breakdown
Don't let anyone to break anything
And remember to
Do what your conscience think.

The Breakdown
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
This poem represents the things that I am interested in breaking during my childhood, toys for instance, and how it feels. In me, it used to be so exciting, even though my mother was always very upset with me. Now, as an adult, I can see clearly in my mother's frustration why she did so. I learned that for every easy way to break things, there is a far more difficult way to put them back, and it does leave its mark. It teaches me that breaking things, be it the objects or relationships, is not a solution. What I remember is to maintain my joining with people, to keep and take care of, and to follow my conscience in all things.
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