Published in Apelly Publishing's 2017 Rising Stars

It was the period before Writer's workshop and is was that day that comes every other week where i had to submit something, anything, and I had forgotten to do so. SO in the fifteen minute left of class and scribbled the first draft of this. I had some lines that had been bouncing around in my head: the very first line, "Bleeding rubies "/"crying sapphires" and from that came a poem that was unamed though i later titled it "Power" so I could put it on my old Wattpad account. After recieving feedback a week later I, for once, took serious time to go back over the piece and edit it, adding a lot. So now we have this version which I preceeded to turn in a couple contests. (It wasn't  winner but as I mentioned before: It did get published among other great, young poets.) My mother suggested the title Dust to Dust since it starts with stardust and goes to hopeless dust. There is a lot of cycle/start and end stuff I put in here that isn't totally clear: Birth to death, garnet and tanzanite being the birthstones for january and december, hearts of gold to hearts of pyrite: fools gold, and some other probably I'm making this way to long again. Thank you for reading!