Keep going

You picked up a bottle,
now your hands carry broken glass.

Keep going,
and piece by piece, shard by shard,
dispose of what remains.

It could be an ugly stain
on your memory,
but you can erase it –

The image of you, on you first try.

As you picked it up,
you broke it.

Now eat up the foul aftertaste,
and keep going.