Diamond
By Amy G
Alone.
A gem, emerald on black
A cage of stone, surrounded by rubble,
Trapped. Unable to move, unable to escape,
In a darkness unlike it has known
Silence.
Alone, it finds noise in the solitude
A voice, speaking to itself and nothing
A Crack.
A split in the silence, a sentence of light in a paragraph of darkness The story of metal on stone
Release.
Chipping away at the debris,
Light shimmering through its body like glass on a midsummer day
Free of the hush of its prison
Freedom.
A gem, emerald on black
The story of a cage long forgotten Erased by the clink of metal on stone
