Graphite

Ordinary is special.

Gray or white light, dull or bright and shimmery.

Only the most important, beautiful are celebrated.

Graphite, simple pencil lead and diamonds

are allotropes of pure carbon.

Diamonds have a tetrahedral structure with single bonds of carbon atoms

Bound together in a network solid.

Graphite the same element,

yet.

Contains an alternating double-bonded flat planar construction

allowing the layers to slip and slide by each other

Giving it the ability to come apart and be a writing instrument.

There is beauty in the simple and strong.

Its ability to create.

To speak.

With each stroke an ordinary pencil, beauty of imagination and creativity sparks.

Smooth scratch across white expanse.

Unbound.

Unleashed.

Unfettered.

The Marilyn Monroe’s,  

no match for the Mary’s of the world.

Mary’s days, full of screaming baby and difficult husband

Her purpose and beauty not lessened

by lack of startling physical beauty.

She is doubly bonded.

Purposeful, important.