Ok heres another one I kinda like this one better but I don't get the Part where it says have you broken yours too? Could you help out?
Repair
You have broken yours, haven't you?
In the dim peeling of years
below the dim ceiling of years
squats a toybox
padded in yellow oilcloth
fresh without a build-up of grime.
Backward in time. . . .
You have broken yours, haven't you?
Broken the clock to find the tick,
dissolved the stamp to find the lick,
plucked the lips off a doll,
torn the leg from Sleepy the Fluffy Lamb,
bent the tail of the metal pony,
the sheer examination of what you love,
its destruction:
Texas peeled off the puzzle map,
its statehood
scrolled up like snots.
Breaking
is constructive.
You see how things work
in the moments they are destroyed,
like the prongs of a ring
that once held a birthstone
now not only empty
but . . . withered somehow,
the tiny tines twisted
so the pearl dropped to the stone floor
beneath the pew
where a child dug at her birthstone
which rolled away
and in its absence
she saw its presence made the ring whole.
You might recognize repair as
a square-snouted dog
with one eye.
At least it has one eye.
Poor Morgie the dog
—but he can still see
from that felt pad anchored by a button,
damaged but understood.
Damage is a kind of understanding:
Look what you've done.
You have broken yours, haven't you?
Molly Peacock
If you could help me figure out what the theme is please
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