I’ve been reading the book One Thousand Gifts. Its insightful author writes so well. Her thoughts on pain in our lives struck deep resulting in my mind wrestling words onto a page. Perhaps you may relate.
What Price Beauty?
Diamonds mantle deep
Extreme heat…extreme pressure
Surface thrown…volcano shrapnel.
Rubies’ recherché
A crash of continents
Thrust upward…world’s apex.
Emerald verdancy
Acid water superheated
Cooling veins green slowly.
Grandeur’s cost great…pressure pulchritudinous.
Why do my soft hands, soft heart, soft life
Expect effortlessness?
Laura Hurlburt Writes 