Eggshells

• Jessica Jing, Grade 5
• Poetry
• 2021

The case of imprisonment
and safety before life and
death.
The eggshell.
Cracked and forgotten.
That’s why Humpty Dumpty never
got up again.
Because eggshells weren’t meant
to be fixed.
They were meant to survive.
Not broken and thrown away.
Not left there like old skin.
But reality is reality.
Not meant to be changed.
So Humpty Dumpty didn’t get up because
he was neglected.
Like all eggshells are.
Like me.