Kintsugi

(sonnet)  
   
Cherished as only broken things can be,    
Fallen to earth, with shattered pieces tossed.    
An angel heart, once whole, shattered holy,    
In black abandoned hope, eternal, lost.    
   
No way in stolen time to reconnect.    
No way to harvest fractured lines again.    
No way these ruined walls can reerect'.    
No way to cleanse this unintended sin.    
   
But in this darkness willing hands embrace.    
With studied calm all puzzled parts put right,    
All jagged curves align and move in place,    
And set with fire, with burning, golden light.    
   
  And so a life with all its scars adorn,    
  In glowing wounds, more lovely than was born.    
   
Kintsugi (also called Kintsukuroi) is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery using gold and silver lacquers with the idea that by emphasizing the repaired damage, the piece is made more beautiful by the uniqueness of the break.(Explanation added after the comment sequence below).