She could not give <br />away his valuable <br />Chinese ceramic gifts. <br />To see them elsewhere <br />would have caused <br />waves of pain. <br />She could not risk suicide <br />by keeping them... <br />a random glance sending <br />her into a sea of suffering. <br />And so she smashed them <br />.. for the anger of action <br />is better than the <br />paralysis of despair.<br /><br />Saiom Shriver<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/madame-butterfly-reborn-in-china/
