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Kintsugi (text)

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Wise hearts are scarred
With lines of gold.
I stopped pretending
To be whole.

Broken shards
Now strength to be.
Pain has set
So much light free.
Kintsugi ("golden joinery") is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold...As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to disguise.
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