A shining bauble lying on the ground

Appearing simple and perfect in every way

Always sitting and waiting to be found

It knows someone will stop and pick it up someday

The glinting surface catches someone's eye

They inspect if for a moment before they throw it back

The bauble slams against the wall as they pass by

You'd never know but beneath the surface is a crack

A shining bauble lying on the ground

Appearing simple and perfect in every way

Always sitting and waiting to be found

It knows someone will stop and pick it up someday

Soon enough there is another one

They carry the bauble for a while before they too toss it aside

Leaving and forgetting, unknowing of what they've done

Bit by bit it breaks more and more far on theinside

A shining bauble lying on the ground

Appearing simple and perfect in every way

Always sitting and waiting to be found

It knows someone will stop and pick it up someday

Outside the bauble sparkles for all the world to see

Its secret it will always keep

The glitter hides the broken reality

Of all the cracks that run so deep

A shining bauble lying on the ground

Appearing simple and perfect in every way

Always sitting and waiting to be found

It knows someone will stop and pick it up someday

A long time passes and one last person does come

They pick up the bauble and take it along

Long and far they travel without any troubles, not one

Perhaps this is the person it was waiting for for so long

A shining bauble lay on the ground

Appearing simple and perfect in every way

Always sitting and waiting to be found

It knew someone would stop and pick it up someday

At a moment the bauble least expected

The person did cast it away

It was too much for it to be again rejected

It shattered and was left where it lay

The scattered pieces of a bauble shine like tears on the ground

Broken, rejected, and forgotten in everyway

No longer waiting because it knows it won't be found

All they do for a broken bauble is brush it out of the way