Getting Through the Going Through

Getting Through the Going Through

Only dust under great pressure

can become diamonds.

The human pressures make

our dust into diamonds—

Diamonds hardened and annealed

in the hot bowels of

love and anger, hurt and disbelief,

joy and pain, and losses

that seem too great to endure—

Only to come out from under

untold pressures to emerge,

sparkling diamonds—

humans who cried, survived,

loved, endured,

caretakers who triumph,

able to use our diamonds

to cut through the pain of loss

and inevitable change.