Puzzle Piece by Tricia Read

Puzzle Piece

by Tricia Read

You try to fit me

into your picture.

I don't belong in this scene,

but you force me

into place -

bending and cramping my uniqueness.

I am not quite the right shape.

My coloring is slightly off.

Yet as long as I don't break, you are

satisfied.

If I did, in disgust you would

toss me aside.