Diamond

Touched by eternity...if only for a moment...unknowingly healed...the sensation of the breadth and width of infinity...of all matter...from the minutest of particles to the most massive of galaxies...spiraled through the tiny blond girl...briefly...an instant there...an instant gone...she knew but didn't know that she was not alone...was never alone...and would never be alone...a pulsating diamond left inside...a piece of God to keep her going...a hand to pull her back from her exploded world...to steady her...to rewire a smashed heart...to pull together the bits and pieces...to create a jerry-rigged whole...to begin the healing...I must have done something terribly wrong for my mother to have given me away she thought...and buried the vibrant gem stone...pushed it way down...then covered it with blood and fresh young flesh