Black Diamonds
The mining towns are shadows now
just memory's of lost miners dreams.
The empty shops and for sale signs
reflect the closing of the mine.
The corporate spreadsheet spoke
and people's lives it wrecked.
To make the share holders rich
and to break the unions grip.
From cupboards full to food bank queue's
the change is hard to take .
As they stand in job centres
looking at minimum wage jobs
flipping burgers or answering calls
100 feet below their feet
lay black diamonds in the ground
comp entry 09082016
Diamonds and coal are both, at their base, different forms of the element carbon (C on the periodic table). And yes, pressure is a key part of what turns decaying carbon-based life forms such as plants into coal, as well as what turns carbon into diamonds.
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