Finding the Beautiful in the Broken?

Is there any love for this Black body of mine?

Or must it be cracked open as a shell to elicit compassion?

Must the earth be broken to perceive the gold beneath?

The Earth tones.

We speak of the goodness of people once they pass,

But what about now?

Vessels of Earth containing treasures hard-earned.

Earth tones, vessels of Earth, and Earth’s inheritors

Could such a people be called anything other than meek

The truest aristocrats.