Stephanie Lester

Christchurch, New Zealand

Stephanie is currently studying law, chemistry, classics and political science at the University of Canterbury. Her poetry has been published in anthologies and competitions in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. She was first published at age 7 with a letter about mudfish. 

This poem was written on 22nd  April 2020.

If I break

If I break

Shatter like a dropped champagne flute

Would you pull me back together

With cellotape

Pulling my arms together

Like two stars that are continuously

Travelling apart

Would you push them into orbit

Mend the stars

With PVA glue

Like you are scrapbooking

One image after another

Building a picture over years

Slotting the pieces of glass together

So that the small cuts on your skin

Are sealed as you pull me together

So we are both whole

So we are orbiting the same star