I've Changed a Lot

Nights
Kevin Hart

There’s nothing that I really want:
The stars tonight are rich and cold
Above my house that vaguely broods
Upon a path soon lost in dark.

My dinner plate is chipped all round
(It tells me that I’ve changed a lot);
My glass is cracked all down one side
(It shows there is a path for me).

My hands—I rest my head on them.
My eyes—I rest my mind on them.
There’s nothing that I really need
Before I set out on that path.
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I like how the speaker in this poem talks about how the plate and glass represent his/her life in the second stanza. The dinner plate being chipped is directly related to his/her life in that the chips symbolize maybe the trouble-spots in his/her life or the parts of his/her life he/she most regrets. When the speaker says, "My glass is cracked all down one side / (It shows there is a path for me)," I feel as if the speaker is looking at the long and jagged path down the side of the glass and wondering if the path will be easy or difficult.