It takes 725,000 pounds per square inch

to transform carbon to diamond.

Pressure forces the atoms to crystallise

which sounds fragile in truth,

like spun sugar, beautiful, but soluble.

 

Yet they hitchhike magma flows,

erupt without warning

land where they may.

The sort of precious

men kill for.

 

Rough cut they are still priceless.

 

Polished,

they still remember being carbon.