My Pearl

Dedicated to Sherni…

And now I’ve lost my pearl, and can’t find her….

In the beginning, the Creator had a thought,

And it was the most beautiful thought he ever had,

So God became an oyster,

And then He loved that thought,

And he loved it liked the oyster loves the grain of sand,

And that thought became God’s personal universe.

And just like an oyster, he built that thought,

Day after day, year after year, century passed.

A millennia passed, and still God loved that thought,

Building layer by layer, drop by drop,

Until the thought became a pearl.

And in his infinite wisdom, He dropped the pearl onto the earth,

And into the ocean,

Where the pearl lay, for an eon,

Where the pearl saw the whole creation take place.

I was in my boat, drifting upon the troubled waters of life,

Clinging to any island that came my way,

But I didn’t find the heaven I was looking for,

So I sailed for a thousand years, looking for the light in my life.

A great storm sprung up in the mighty ocean,

And my little boat was torn to shreds in that strange, powerful storm,

And as my cold body hit the water, I still looked for the light,

Slowly, steadily, my blood was replaced with salt,

As God’s tears entered my body, and filled me with despair,

I slowly sank to the bottom of the ocean,

In the deep, dark and sacred womb of Mother Earth herself,

Like a crying child in his mother’s bosom.

I slowly sank to the bottom of the ocean,

And lay there, waiting for death to take me to a better place.

My body settled into the ocean floor,

My eyes caked with mud and water.

And then, out of the murky depths,

A single ray of light shone thorough,

A dazzling aura of purity,

That lit up the demon depths,

In the ocean, that was the hole in my soul.

A last frantic attempt, I swam towards the light,

And there, embedded in a millennia of mud and earth,

Lay a pearl.

A pearl like no other,

A thing this world has never seen,

A fragment of an angel tear,

A piece of the Sun,

A mirror to the stars,

Venus essence,

Strength of Mars.

As as I swam towards that pearl,

I found the light I had been looking,

A light that lit up my soul,

And brought tears to my blood-drenched eyes.

That pearl I took, and swam to the surface,

Where there was only the calm after the storm.

And I loved the pearl like God had loved her,

And I wanted to only look and hold her to my heart forever.

But, now my pearl is lost,

And I don’t know where to look for her,

If someone could find her for me,

I would give that man my soul.

I’ve searched the whole ocean,

And I’ve looked for her under every grain of sand under the beach,

I’ve searched all the stars,

And I’ve even looked under my shadow,

But I cant find her,

She’s not in my heart,

She’s not in my arms,

She’s not in the love of a man,

She’s not in a glass of wine.

I’ve looked for her in the laughter of a child,

In the robes of a monk,

In the song of a lark,

In the beauty of a mountain,

In the joy of happiness,

In the loneliness of sad,

But I can’t seem to find her

And I want my pearl back,

For without her I am lost,

And I love my pearl,

More than I love my life.

Have you seen my pearl, milady????

~ by aecoss on August 12, 2008.