Possibilities

From our March 2013 issue

By Frieda-Marie Elias – Swift Current, Sask.

A diamond
Mixed with dirt
In a kimberlite
Is shaken out ––

It is washed
It is cut
It is ground
It is polished
And burnished bright.

After numerous events
It sparkles everlastingly
And ceases not
To flash and flash
Its light.