Gold's untarnished yellow feigns dawn's igniting of soft edges behind a mountain cloud, or sunset's beacon flashing reflected from home's far window.
A diamond's clear flash imitates bright glints of blinding sun across the afternoon shore, or a star's brilliantly precise ray through eternal night.
A sapphire's velvet marine resembles the limitless horizon between azure sky and tropic sea, or the vertigo of fathomless water below suspended feet.
An emerald's tantalizing green mimics the vividly penetrating beam warming a rainforest's singular tree, or the disarmingly beautiful captivation of a strangers eyes.
A rainbow necklace of delicate gems pales on a summer afternoon porch shaded by stately trees and a butterfly sanctuary of whimsical flowers, calm breezes stirring blue shadow leaves brushing intimately on white shiny paint.
By accident these jewels mirror life's ephemeral essence Grasping for this illusion to hold fast the spirit distracts one from living.
One can cling to stones for one's life, Or One can live moments for infinity.