Friday's Whims of the Time Traveler 63.0: August 15th, 2007

Precious Mentalities
by Belinda Roddie

All the gold on the western seashore

Is slowly melting

Melting in the sweaty palm of a traveler

Who’s traveled under

Far too many suns

He wears a Peruvian shawl

And Oriental jewels

But his eyes are thawing Arctic ice

All the silver in the eastern mountains

Is breaking to pieces

Scattering in shards across a landscape

Where cattle chew

The unwanted residue

Of an ancient civilization

Too bad it tastes sweet

Yet no stranger desires its flavor

All the diamonds suspended on a Northern horizon

Are growing duller

Duller in the eyes of a wealthy man

He can’t take their shine

For much more time

But they still glitter like the stars

That children wear on their necks

Stars hear their dreams but do not hold them

Down in the blazing sun of a Southern town

No gold melts, no silver shatters,

And diamonds resemble smiles, not stars

For they hold smiles too

At very high value

And they know that there’s still plenty

Of these precious metals

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