beauty in brokenness [mosaic]

An image:

everything precious is shattered.

[is that just the nature of the world? disintegration?
of humanity? desecration?
and then...]

our job is to take the shards, the flecks, the brokenness, and piece it back together
as a mosaic--
as something new
something more true
more unique and real
to who we are
and the nature of it all
(yes, all of it:
even the wounding. the shadow. the grotesque.)

just like the cocoon
disassembles,
dissolves everything
a caterpillar is,
and rearranges it
to have [multicolored] wings. 

Cocoon.

"In their dispute, both nature and culture are correct. You do belong to both. But your personal development requires that you not choose a side, that you simultaneously hold the opposing claims and withstand the tension between them. This conscious holding of opposites will, itself, constitute a significant stimulus to your maturation within the cocoon. It might even be one of the primary factors."

Bill Plotkin
Nature and the Human Soul
The Wanderer In the Cocoon.