In the Life of a Rubber Band by Joe Peterson

In the Life of a Rubber Band

by Joe Peterson

I was a rubber band

Plain, as rubber bands go

I had no color

According to the other rubber bands

And being plain

I accepted it

I was a rubber band

With many different uses

I was strong

For my life was centered

On one part of life

Be all the rubber band I could be!

I was a rubber band

Who encountered twists

and ripples

While holding other together

Others were important

Even if they weren't concerned about me

I was a rubber band

Who had been stretched

To my limit

And finally broke

In tiredness, in dreary tones,

and in helplessness- I was alone.

I was a rubber band

who discovered that I was still of some use

With another broken band The greatest

Rubber Band ever

Who was broken for others like me

But survived.