everyone keeps talking
about the broken

who are these broken people

when people are either wounded
or scarred or healing or healed
evolving or devolving or revolving
the way the animate do

and in truth even the inanimate
objects of this world
are never really broken
only in a change of state

unless by broken you mean
cease to perform
their desired function

in which case people still
cannot be broken
except by capitalistic definitions
of what purpose is
as laid out by external perceptions

because the only true purpose
of the state of being human
is to navigate the change