I always say that once a friendship breaks and mends back again, that it’s never the same No matter how much you want it to be the same... It never will be A relationship is like a piece of glass When it shatters, all of those pieces scatter And you find yourself left to pick up the pieces You get hurt... hurt from the sharp edges of the glass and hurt by the person who broke it You try to fix it... You think you’ve put it back together again but there are some pieces missing... You don’t know what happened to them You spend hours searching and then tell yourself that you don’t need those pieces That the pieces are not important But deep down you know... You know that it’s incomplete You know that it’s no longer perfect You know that it won’t be the same anymore But you don’t want to let yourself know that You put on a smile... You don’t let them know they’ve hurt you You don’t let them know you’re incomplete That whatever you guys had is broken and different and imperfect And it hurts, it hurts when you think about it It hurts that you cut yourself on the glass of what you had and it hurts that you want it back to the way it was But... it can’t go back It can’t go back because the pieces are missing It can’t go back because the glass isn’t the same anymore It can’t go back because now, you’re left with shattered glass
I always used the metaphor of shattered glass as a representation of a broken relationship with someone. I finally made that metaphor into words.