The Glass
Which way are you—
half empty or half full?
An engineer might argue
there’s no question—
only a glass
twice as big as it should be.
To make the glass smaller
is one idea,
but have you ever known
a glass,
once taken from the heat
and shaped,
once set aside
and cooled,
once put to any use
by any god at all,
to meekly
shrink?
Leave the glass alone awhile
and its implications—
what your answer supposedly
says of you—
whole personality profiles
built on the presumed challenge
of a mute wet vessel.
Leave it alone a day, a week,
then look again.
It has been quietly
emptying
itself.
There is so much room.
by Holly L. Thomas
© 2006