One Single Black Grain Poem by Noah Body

On a wave washed crystal white beach
Uncountable billions of grains of sand
Perfect beauty from the sun's own bleach
Shimmers of purity stretch across the land

Countless grains in harmonious alignment
A unity of purpose engenders a magical scene
An elusive sense of near perfect refinement
But for a singular blemish glaringly obscene

Forlorn and lost among endless white grains
One ugly black speck jarringly discordant
The artful wonder of this beach it stains
Amid the perfection a scar most mordant

No place on this beach will it ever belong
Among vast numbers of grains eternally alone
While glowing white grains make melodious song
A harsh dissonant shriek that ruins the tone