Jigsaw Puzzle


from the ABC set 2007

When I broke into one thousand pieces,
I became a puzzle, as yet unsolved.
No way to put myself back together,
While the complexity still increases.

Please stay away and do not get involved,
For I am no more fixed than the weather:
A shattered picture of gathering clouds,
Over a landscape obscured by shadow.

Unfit for company, this lone pastime
Keeps my brain functioning, away from crowds.
Random flowers scattered on the meadow
Demonstrate my chaotic paradigm:

Each fragment’s independence only mocks
The perfect photograph upon the box.

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