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Puzzle Piece
Puzzle Piece
6/22/2013
I am an orange puzzle piece amongst
7 billion red ones
Place by place, I am crammed
They cannot decide where I go
Moved by sticky fingers and cold hands
Who empathizes with a puzzle piece?
I am classified as an “inanimate object,”
I sort of kind of fit right here
And I guess I look okay
But in the end they realize
Their mistake
I am an extra orange puzzle piece
When the puzzle is entirely red
I belong to a puzzle that does not exist
I belong to a puzzle that is dead
I am “close enough”
But not exactly perfect
I was the center piece
A thousand years ago
But now I am a solid piece
A solid piece of “alone”
I am the only one who made it through
From the orange puzzle piece crew
I am orange
I am a piece of mind
I am a puzzle piece
I know I don’t belong here
But I can’t tell you that
It’s not my fault that I was salvaged
It’s not my fault that I got put in the wrong box
I do not a have a voice to deny my place
I do not have opposable thumbs
To move myself away from you
I’d move under the couch until
Somebody vacuumed me up
No longer around to confuse you
I am similar but not exact
To the piece that you need
I only have two little nubs for “hands”
A space in one side
Where my closest friend fit perfectly
Years ago
I have a busy mind
And no voice to speak it with
It’s not my fault who I am
It’s not my fault what is
I am just a silly piece that doesn’t fit
You can rotate me
And flip me over
But I do not belong here
This jigsaw puzzle isn’t mine
The place I live is not my life
The time I spend is wasted
Because I know I do not fit
I wish I had a mouth and tongue
To tell all of you this
