A Girl And A Pearl

• Emily Mcerlean, Grade 5
• Poetry
• 2016

Towering cliffs, colossal caves, an eerie breeze and the breaking waves.
The smallest trinket, with metal that would link it to a small braided string.
Golden bleached grass, a girl skimming over each, closing her eyes as she reached,
the treasured thing, loose on its string began to tumble and fall.
The string on a pearl, began to curl and broke on the crashing waves.
Off the cliff would follow the pearl, if not saved by a hollow cave.
In a pool it lay, and there it would stay, never seeing the rays of sun.
A desperate girl, searching for her pearl, became tired in the last lights of day.
She looked to the sky, and began to cry, as she trailed away.
A year had passed, since she had last seen her shiny pearl.
She saw some caves, down by the waves, so she began to venture down.
Beneath the grey, there it lay, the tiny precious pearl.
Suddenly, the girl began to sing, with joy of the sight of her treasured found thing.
Now with the pearl held close to her heart, never again will the pearl and her part.