A Diamond In A Crusher

Do you know how the diamond industry processes diamonds?

They have huge machines that dig up diamond ore,
Called "kimberlite".
This stuff is fed into a series of crushers
Which pulverize it down to a certain size.

You see: they are trying to extract tiny diamonds.
Diamonds aren't like gold:
You can't melt them down; you need to find them.

Anyway, their bread-and-butter is the engagement ring diamond;
So they crush all of the diamond ore down to smaller
And smaller size.
Finally, it's fed into a conveyor belt
With a scanner, which looks for the rough diamonds.
As the ore falls off the end of the belt
Compressed air jets send out short blasts to
Push the individual diamonds into the diamond chute,
While the remaining waste rock falls into the waste chute.

So really the system is set up with a pre-defined goal in mind:
To find engagement ring stones.

They've already decided what they're looking for.

So what do you suppose happens if,
In this process,
They dig up a huge diamond...?
A once-in-a-lifetime diamond...?

Like the Cullinen...?
Which was only spared because it was noticed
By a manager... so the story goes... glinting
In the side of a pit... in South Africa.

The Cullinen was picked out of the
Pit wall with a pen knife.
It was so large your fingers
Wouldn't touch together
If you tried to hold it in your fist.
It was eventually cut and formed
The Crown Jewels of England.

What happens to a once-in-a-lifetime diamond
If it's put into this
We've-already-decided-what-we're-looking-for
(Circular thinking)
Process of diamond refining?

It gets destroyed. Smashed to pieces in the crushing process.

So this is what can happen when
One knows what one is looking for
And goes after it:
If one finds something astounding,
Something or someone who is
Unexpected and
Once-in-a-lifetime...
One will destroy it,
In their application of circular-thinking;
To make it fit cynical preconceptions:

It's not even an engagement ring now;
And it might have been a Crown Jewel.

--- 22 June 2015