What is meant by a diamond in the rough?
The answer to this one can be pretty tough.
Are they referring to a person’s religious state?
Or, maybe a person’s developing social fate?
Possibly an uncut diamond still in the rough.
Basically, anyone or anything changed enough.
When completed, are you a bright shining star?
Or, are you just someone who has gone too far?
A diamond in the rough should indicate good.
If cut and fashioned in the manner it should.
Such crude comparisons may go too far.
Maybe the person is better off right where they are?
It seems to be a judgmental conclusion.
Which may sometimes cause confusion.
A diamond in the rough to one person’s eye
may be a plank in the eye to another, like a sty.
Do not judge unless you be judged.
Your name could end up being mud.
So much for philosophy today.
I will save the rest for another day.
——————————————–R.W. Johnson—–(2019)