Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall; Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

This is a nursery rhyme we learned as children, and somewhere along the line in history class we were taught that its composer, "Mother Goose," was, in fact, a political satirist. If we look between the lines of these playful rhymes we will find some kind of hidden message poking fun at royalty. (I guess you had to be there to get the joke.)

Whether Sir Dumpty was some courtier destroyed by political intrigue or a giant egg as once depicted in a children's book only historians can say for sure. But, political or not, there is a truth to be told by his story: Some things and some relationships are just so fragile that all can be lost in one w…