The Silent Grains of Sand (a parable)

Morning’s sun rising from the horizon

leisurely dissolves the blanket of mist 

losing its grasp of the shimmering surface -

exposing a sea of diamonds sharing their

secrets with the shoreline’s grains of sand.

Adam and Eve - original witnesses in

a brand new world all to themselves,

found that perfection leads to vexation in the

cradle of civilization’s raw material, waiting

impatiently through vast primordial days.

Oh, the scenes these silent diamonds and grains

of sand must have visited through the millennia;

and the chronicles they surely witnessed - if only

they might have had tongues with which to speak!

The glorious sounds of old Eden -

Daniel’s cries in the lion’s den -

the tempest engulfing Noah’s ark -

the last roar …  of the last …  dinosaur!

Evening’s sun gently scatters its palette of

startling hues in the heavens and finally

withdraws its luster from earth’s timid grasp.

The diamonds of morning stream heavenward anew

to resume their secret dialogue and sustain once more

the parable of the silent grains of sand.

The revolving cycle is completed for now - the

diamonds of morning bask in their starry glory.

As the rising sun brings another new dawn,

the whole process of life is once more begun.

The message of the parable of the silent grains of sand

Will remain swathed in silence - shielded forevermore.