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In the rough
by Vanessa Yates → (All Poetry by Vanessa Yates)
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you may see just a lump of coal
but I shine bright on the inside

like those found in killing fields
I'll one day be smuggled out
and into the hands of a man
that will hold me in high regard
this diamond doesn't mind
being cultivated I am a thing
of great beauty and promise
if you know how to judge quality
you know that there is more to me
than just the lump of coal
that hovers about my being



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