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.
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