You've become more valuable and precious than you've dreamed through the conflicts and problems you've overcome.

Smooth Stones

[© 2011 George Harrison]

On beaches unnamed

Lie pebbles unnumbered

Which rose from the depths

And a watery slumber

Washed to the shoreline

By tide and by storm

They clatter together

In colorful swarms.

Their rough edges battered

And, smoothed by the fray

Then, polished by turmoil

They're thrust into day.

Where, shining on beach sand

One catches an eye

Picked up and admired

By some passer by.

A thousand years; ten,

Perhaps, even more

It lay on the sea bed

Working towards shore.

Patient through conflict,

Refined by each trouble

It wasn't deterred

By tide, sand or bubble.

The rough stones rejected

Your eye casts it's view

And seeks out the smooth stones,

Only smooth stones will do.

As you pick up this pebble,

You've found on the shore

It's smooth, silky surface,

Implies that there's more . . .

To tell and to teach

A History; Your Life.

To consider your Journey

Through tide, surf and strife.

Life's Lessons considered?

You're never alone.

And, refined by your troubles;

You've become a smooth stone. 

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