made to shine
beneath the rolling tide
i buried my heartache and my pride
just recognized
that i was but a moment scripted into song
my lyric and my heart
have been weather beaten but never torn apart
every sorrow
becomes an artform of my dance
twisting raw coal into diamond and i will cut the
glass
of any who think to steal away
my dreams
because my heart is mine and mine alone
so many people have tried to shatter my light,
but i refuse to accept the darkness
as a home
or be the monster they've been to me;
i will aspire to reach and burn brighter than they
will ever know
because i want more than a simple life where i forget
who i am
becoming but a breath of vapor
without dreams, without hope, without conscience,
without soul;
i have an immortal flame
that i will never allow to die because i know
i was made to shine.
Coal Into Diamonds -- Abbey Esparza
Diamonds don't really evolve from coal; their stable form would be graphite, and theoretically they could convert to that substance at room temperature and pressure. In 1772 Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (known as Antoine Lavoisier after he was guillotined in 1794, charged with tax fraud and selling adulterated tobacco) used a lens to concentrate the rays of the sun on a diamond in an atmosphere of oxygen; since the only product of the combustion was carbon dioxide, this proved that diamonds are composed of carbon. (Lavoisier established that sulfur was an element, discovered and named oxygen in 1779 and hydrogen in 1783, and predicted the existence of silicon in 1787, gaining him the nickname "father of modern chemistry.") In 1797 Smithson Tennant demonstrated that burning diamond and graphite releases the same amount of gas, thus establishing the chemical equivalence of these substances; he is best known for his 1803 discovery of the elements iridium and osmium, which he found in the residues from the solution of platinum ore.
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Their name comes from the Greek "adamas" (untamed, proper, unalterable, unbreakable).