Ice

Oct 28 2019

I will take diamond over gold.

Both are dense, treasured, pure.

But diamonds are carbon, compressed,

like poetry, condensed and distilled.

Black sooty coal

made transparent,

its sheer faceted faces

expressing the essence of light.

Which I imagine

endlessly refracting

and then reflecting back,

pure light

contained within the precious stone,

even when it's locked away

in its pitch black vault.