My Pearl of Inestimable Value

Out from its obscurity in this Silence Dawn,

emerged an invisible Cruelty, gabbed in

terminal robe;

Stealthily descended upon this blissful abode:

the habitation of ‘My Pearl of Inestimable Value’

With its fangs snarling in a murderous fury,

and its claws drew out tigerishly;

and in this pale dawn of our Lord’s Day:

this ageless Cruelty, in a vengeful gale,

snatched away ‘My Pearl of Inestimable Value’

There now lies a deep dark pulsating emptiness,

on the stable, where ‘My Pearl of Inestimable Value’

had rested,

gnawing painfully at the heart of those who once

cherish and relish the Pearl’s splendor

I have lost ‘My Pearl of Inestimable Value’

Snatched away by the ageless Cruelty

prowling infinitely in time and space;

visiting homes with tears and sorrows:

A painful reality of life’s mortality