Careless... for a friend

Our friendship, shattered like a crystal bowl
lies on the floor between us, while we stand
knowing that neither time, nor skillful hand,
nor all our sorrowing, will make it whole.
But only yesterday
it was a wonder:
so clear it was,
and skillfully wrought.
I set it on the mantel of my thought
to see it broken by a moment's blunder.
Careless, we placed it perilously high.
Careless, we made some clumsy moves
which sent it crashing
to destruction on the grate.
Oh, we have both been careless,
you and I
like children
playing with an ornament
who do not know its worth
until too late.

I wish I could keep all the good feelings
you've ever given me safe inside a bottle.
Every time I needed a smile, a joke, a hug,
all I'd have to do is take the lid off that bottle
and experience again all the caring you've shared
with me. It would be my very own treasure of
sweetness and tenderness.It would be like holding
our friendship in my hand.

~unknown~

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"Wicked Game" ..by Chris Isaak