The Pearl of Great Price . . .

     When I was young I was always writing ‘books.’

    ...The fact that they never exceeded a few pages or the first chapter never deterred me. I never gave up beginning, only finishing! But when I grew up I did eventually progress and now I have finished a few.

The Pearl

When I am old I will write a pearl.

The pearl will be 25,000 miles wide,

Because it will circle the world

In one second.

It will be the smallest thing

Which can do that –  

Small as a pea under 20 mattresses,

That is why it will be a pearl.

Then the world will know what it has

Forgotten,

And I will be gone.

                        – Age 7