When I am old I will write a pearl.
The 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 lost
and forgotten.
And I will be
gone.
