Song of the Powers

I never really thought deeply about rock, paper, and scissors. I mean everybody knows the game but what do these symbols stand for? The stone stands for power and more solid than simple wishes. It gets the job done and stands alone. Then there's the paper that, like the rock, stands alone but it is able to dominate not with power but by smothering. It is light and white, but is able to cover rock. Paper still stands alone, yet it is able to shape and become a part of an object, just like a rock is able to bend, shape, and crush scissors. The scissors gash through paper and is able to shape paper. This poem mentions a lot about wishes such as the scissors tattering wishes and the rock stronger than wishes. This poem represents the different wishes people have and the different ways they are conquered and brought back into reality. The poem ends with all the objects-paper, rock, and scissors-all ending alone which is symbolic of how wishes stand alone and can destroy each other if allowed. A person can only have so many wishes before they start to step on each others toes. This poem is able to make the reader think deeply on symbols that when glanced at seem simple but represent so much more.