A Broken Jar of Coconut Oil
I use a jar of coconut oil
To moisturize my face
I use a jar of coconut oil
To lay edges on my forehead
I use a jar of coconut oil
To soothe my baby boy’s chapped lips
I use a jar of coconut oil
For cooking when olive oil runs low
It’s very important to know
That jar of coconut oil is available.
I need it everyday, it seems.
One day.
I dropped the jar.
It was mostly full so it didn’t fully shatter.
But the bottom of the jar broke off
And I noticed that the oil, because it is winter time and nothing melts while in my cupboards, kept shape of the jar.
I quickly retrieved the large piece of glass from the ground and threw them away.
They were easy to identify as they had been laid out on the bathroom tile. There was no question
They were indeed broken and unsafe.
I realized shortly thereafter that the remaining broken shards of glass had splintered off so thinly and minutely that they were now embedded deeply into the oil itself.
