Pearl

Pearl The pearl is precedence A quiet resting creature who but deigns to live and die When life inserts hard measure Surrounds with gentle folds And turns its pain to treasure But lesson more than learning That time alone will show Already tells me nothing Ah pearl, I do not already know This tiny hurt of love was left, so like a grain of sand When last she made to go Time graced my heart to understand Ah pearl, I know I know Emptiness would rest Without that grain of hurt So 'round its pain I grow 'till hard layered shell disguise the thing Ah pearl, I know I know Oyster-man lie quiet There's nothing left to do Save gently rock in a sea of time And grow 'round the grain of love she left in you Encase it in a luster of multicolored hue Mixed of tear and hope and memories Of when your love, loved you Hard over hard, and slow 'tis not an easy shell to grow when years of time have rolled by thee if some forsaken scientist from curiosity Should wonder at your core And crush your opalescent majesty From vain wanting to know more Perhaps in wonder he would see That tiny grain of sand that hurt you so it caused a thousand-layered soul to cover it and brought beauty borne of pain that it might never show But I would not have to open you see what made you grow- Ah, precious hearted pearl I know, I know.