Fragile

Why are human beings so fragile?
With bones that break like twigs, skulls that crack like eggshells, and hearts easily broken by mere words.
Why do we hold ourselves so high in this world, when all we are is just another race of creatures tapdancing on the edge of death.

Reviews

[TLK]

"eggshell skull" is a phrase which has some meaning to me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggshell_skull


You ask a very profound question with a commendable limitation of words. The effect is to let the reader fill the silence with their own thoughts. If a novel is a tree, this poem is a twig which snags you as you brush past... and that is contact with the reader.

[Zoe Marie Ross]

I often think the same way, I have never understood why we are so 'fragile', and how we can be killed by a stab wound, a bullet, a dog attack, a bus or even at the hands of either your family or lover. Why have we not evolved into something that can withstand a bullet, a knife or evolved into stronger human beings that can fight off a dog's jaw, or an attacker or even to stop a bus? Great poem, it had the intended affect, I pondered and apparently, wrote it for you to read.

[Avocations of Amber]

Insightful pondering... :) I like the open-endedness here.....as the reader is left with the vision of people "tapdancing" all over the planet in their own little pieces of time and space....Only some ever live without the blinders on.... ;) nice write

[Lee Rhodes]

Thank you :)