Metaphor for life

One might say they have found a gemstone among the ocean but it is quite more than that weathered tattered tumbled by the ocean's currents it's history speaks transformed by nature's hand it's brokenness has outlived its usefulness as it comes to his final resting place up on the beach hidden by millions of san granules like a diamond in the rough so to speak -to me it represents my love of the ocean it's ever-changing tidal conditions that have washed the treasures of years gone by it takes me back to shipwrecks and their treasures and the time it has taken for this beautiful sea glass to emerge in the end it's a renewal of their presence forgotten but now found as my curiosity has gotten the best of me