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COMICS & POEMS 2: Life Is Fragile, Poetry

Life Is Fragile

A life is such a fragile thing,
A woven chain of thread;
With links of joyous golden strands,
Or dark and somber dread.

A piece of lead can end a life,
Though small in size and weight;
And none can tell when life is gone,
What is its doom or fate.

As bubbles floating in the air,
Some break and fall below;
Some rise to higher worlds unknown,
Where others cannot go.

No matter what we say,
That life is bubble or a chain;
We know that man cannot bring back,
The life that once is slain.


--Written by Marcia Minot

This poem is featured in Prism of Thoughts, an Anthology of Poetry released by the International Library of Poetry in October, 1997.

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