Diamond [ Poems from GHOSTS ]
I found a diamond in the ocean.
It floated by
as if by accident
but when I grasped it in my palm it spoke my name. Then it was silent.
I turned it over and over,
looking for something
finding nothing;
just a brilliant hardened carbon in my hand, gleaming and wet.
The sun caught it. I was afraid.
The moments of my life rushed through me like a tide and I clenched the diamond in my fist.
All your life, it said. Every pain.
My hand opened. The sea laughed. The diamond was gone.