Hidden Jewel

There's more to love than loving

there's more to pain than pain

And if diamonds take a million years

we must learn to overcome the same strain

Wanting what's new means one thing:

asking what's old to die

And what's true before we move to grow

passes over in a moment of sighing

I knew a girl - she refused to come out fighting

She could have moved the planets with her hand like

counting grains of sand.

Dig her daily shuffle on down the street on slovenly feet

Dig the love within her waiting,

with an undiscovered purpose.

You couldn''t help but think about her as a missing person - someone important had caused her heart to fear

So she withered, like a raisin in the sun - needing will, needing vision, needing hope and not doubt

Needing shelter from a loveless existence

She'd mustered all her little courage just to face the day -

it was rainy and gray

And we all could see her, trying to free her

Looking out to find the person who had taken innocence and blessedness and carried them away -- who'd given all of it away to those who couldn't see her beauty.

And Prince Charming never came.

And, if he had, shed have spit into his eye &

left him wondering why anyway.

Charming princes never carry half as much as they can carry off.

I see it every day.

Pretty soon she drove us all away -

for her there could be no other way.