Chopsticks

Who would have thought about Chopsticks,

The laughs when learning to hold two sticks

Finely carved, though could be a handful of tricks,

Who would have known with every sound of its clicks,

Its story, its journey, each rice bowl it digs,

Might have been an idea by a simpleton who seeks

With each passing day, just to survive the weeks,

But instead, an empire it sustained, not with bricks,

But with pillars between our fingers that pick

Grains and meat to fatten our cheeks.

~~ Irriesse Chia, 2016
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