Every diamond has 5 c’s
Cut, Carat, Clarity, Color
But the one people seldom speak of is
Cruelty
Cruelty is what drives the price
Cruelty is what makes these diamonds so desirable
Cruelty makes these diamonds so available
The more cruelty put into these diamonds
The cheaper they become
Children are slaughtered
To find these carbon rocks
Women become slaves
To find these lustrous rocks
People get ripped from their families
To find these pretty rocks
Children are dismembered
All for a piece of these seemingly priceless rocks
This rock drives the economy of these countries
Because when people purchase these rocks
The slavery continues
And the cycle continues
Buy a rock, buy a person
How much are diamonds worth anyway?
100$? 1,000$? 1,000,000$?
Are they really worth more humans?
I really like the way your start your poem-- it drives your message through very effectively.
ReplyDeleteI like the use of repetition and your last line is incredibly powerful, great poem !
ReplyDeleteThe way you repeatedly call people out on forgetting about the Cruelty of a diamond in the first stanza really set the tone for the poem well. I like the line "Are they really worth more humans?" because it ties together the entire poem into one idea and leaves the reader with the big idea in their mind.
ReplyDeleteI love the alliteration used, especially in the beginning of the poem. Your message is very powerful, and this is shown through the great metaphorical use of the people, rocks, and diamonds along with slavery.
ReplyDeleteI like the way that you incorporated the letter C many times, then used your own idea to help prove your point. My favorite line was the last one because it makes the reader guess the price of a human.
ReplyDeleteI like how after the first stanza you started to refer to diamonds as "rocks" to emphasize their insignificance compared to human lives. Your last line really sums up the purpose of the poem and leaves the reader thinking even after the poem had ended.
ReplyDeleteI like the repetition and usage of "rocks" to show how the value of diamonds is so trivial and superficial compared to the loss of human lives and resources needed to extract them. My favorite line in the poem was "buy a rock, buy a person," since it shows the extent of human extortion in the world.
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