PEARL

From dust I was made

To dust I’ll return

Just a speck of earth

Dirty and impure

 

So foreign to God

A nature of sin

Bathed in nacre

A beauty began

 

Layer upon layer

Crystals of light

Protective beauty

Of what lay inside

 

Irritant was I

But God could see

A shimmering pearl

Transformed me to be.

~ by Ken Dillman on February 28, 2013.