Wonderful Eric! Reading this, I feel perfectly broken!

Wonderful creativity, agree with you. Thanks for sharing such a good a post.

Beautiful poem friend

Just such a beautiful poem✨What doesn’t break us makes us stronger🙌Thank you!

great writing,thanks for nice creativity

amazing post...great creativity,thanks for post

Realy awesome lyrics

Wonderful poem @ericvancewalton. Interesting to read. I love it.
Resteemed.

Love it, and every word is so true. Always a pleasure to read your poems.

Nice creative poem with nice attached glass broken gif.
Followed/ Upvoted/ Resteemed.

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This is more than poetry, fantastic rhetoric

Thanks @ericvancewalton, always a pleasure reading from you. You are one of those who inspire my writing. Thank you for that

That was wonderfully broken haha just kidding truly amazing to read each word was quite deep and so fascinating to read great work :)

Just keep writing Sir you have a good aspects and thinking in life

That’s tight.

This is really fantastic to read thanks for sharing this poem

You did well by adding more meaning to the poem bigger than what the stanzas say, your simple use of short verses are amazing

This poem was so much enjoyable! Wonderful poem..

artistic words...visually, musically and emotionally. I look forward to reading more of your work.
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Great job bro on your poetry thanks for sharing t. you have my upvote & resteem  @mannyfig1956

Love it, and every word is so true, love to read it...

I love the idea, @ericvancewalton, of being 'broken beautifully'.  Thank you, for developing it and reminding us of the power of having our hearts broken, open, with tenderness and compassion.

So many echoes of this life-sustaining idea from different disciplines --- spirituality, psychology, and literature. Here' a few:

"I was given a thorn in my flesh... to torment me. / Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. / But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. ” 

- St. Paul
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'The wound is the place where the Light enters you.' -Rumi
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'Only the wounded physician heals.' -Jung

'There is a crack in everything / that's how the light gets in.' 
- Leonard Cohen

Even yours truly has written a little ditty on this subject:

"I've been lavishly gifted a pain
as thick and rich as oil paint
By pushing it round the page
I've learned to make Art."

The power of words and how they dance from one's pen. An upvote and a follow from me.

what a talent you are, its comming from very deep within you, thats for sure!

This was a deep poem. I also think the image of the glass breaking went perfect with the poem. Nice job

"Could it be the things they give to us are even more valuable than what they wish to steal away?"

This is beautiful! It's so counterintuitive to look for what you might gain from letting go of something you're afraid to lose. 

"Ponder this, as you stare into a sky you’ve never seen before"

And this is the secret to unlocking those gains. The sky you've never seen before is the one you gaze upon with fresh eyes. Fresh eyes see past the loss and broken ugliness, and give us a glimpse of a future that is whole again. And that future is something worth pondering, even if we can't see it yet.

Followed!

Thanks for sharing, I love the fact there are so many like-minded individuals here.

<blockquote>the light refracts
from their shards,
exacting sharp shadows,</blockquote>

What a line it is...I liked it the most form the above lyrics...

Thank you so much @ericvancewalton

Nice one :)
Liked the poem ,and yes all of us are somehow affected to be broken somehow !

Good post