My Precious Gemstone

When I first saw you

You reminded me of a precious gemstone

One that glistened and gleamed

And was perfect in every way

Your skin was smoother than

A crystal polished hundreds of times

And was purer than the most

Breathtaking pieces of diaphanous quartz

Your locks of hair were like Tigers Eye

A brown that was bolder than walnut wood

Painted with striking streaks of

Dulcet, amber hued honey

Your eyes were green like malachite

Even emeralds would be envious

Of the flamboyant jade colored flame

That burned within your irises

And how you adored the hue of

The sun as it gleamed through the sky

Or of topaz as it's translucent tint

Brought the room alight with its chroma

But then your crystalline, calm demeanor

Transformed to one of covert calamity

As you slowly but surely began to crack

Your jagged edges cutting all who came near

I tried to put your tethered, broken shards

Back together into their intricate positions

But in the end, it only fractured you more

The glimmer of hope I had for you dimming

When I last saw you

You reminded me of the most gorgeous garnet

Your shattered fragments spread across the ground

Stained in the deepest caliginous carmine

Everyone whom you had awed with your

Precious smile and brilliant kindness

Slowly began to tuck themselves away

In a shell created with somber obsidian

But as seconds ticked away into hours, days, weeks

The hardened chains of rock that cemented our minds

Slowly corroded away into acceptance

Farewell my precious gemstone, 'til we meet again