Diamond

I had been toying with this idea for a poem for months now but for some reason was finally compelled to sit down and tap out these verses in the wee hours of this morning.

To JCM, who art perfection in thy perfection
Diamond

From the moment

I first beheld thee, thou hast

bewitched me with the brilliance of thy soul:

What blazing fire, what forces, what skilled Hands

did fashion thee to peerless perfection, my beloved Jewel?

Thou art the reason for the enraptured song in my tormented soul,

inflamed by the Radiance made resplendent through thy manifold facets!

Yet thou art the reason for unspeakable anguish, for did I not bear witness whilst

thou didst endure the needless scourge that shattered thee and compelled thee to tears?

Although Fate hath with Its unfathomed reason deigned to confide to me one flaw

within thy depths, long transformed by time and thy defiance of the Dark,

Thou shalt remain my most cherished and rarest of treasures,

mounted for eternity upon the fading crown of my being,

And above all be missed when in all certitude

I shall be bereft of thy light

by Another.