Jade bracelet

"My dear, this shall protect you from fear

Shall give you the strength, prosperity, gear

To build life of greatness and lead towards truth

You shall have a prosperous, virtuous youth"

Said grandma and handed me bracelet of jade

With that even memory of her won't fade

Although with the years that have passed

There's much wisdom, besides, I'd amassed

This bracelet once placed on the wrist,

Was a talisman, one couldn't resist

A promise, protection and peace

Which mind practiced for years to release

It helped me when I graduated

Was there when my drive wasn't sated

Along on the path to great making

I shouldn't have felt it for taking

When life threw me under the buses

As house, husband, all with the passes

Had turned away, walked and deserted

My life which once all they supported

Through sorrows of death and destruction

I've walked and I've pondered on functions

I've learned many lessons that followed

And felt like whole life was quite borrowed

From then on alone and damn tired

And even from job was I fired

And after I felt like I'd done

That's when I looked what I've become

I've learned through the dark there is light

And even when wounded - I fight

When all screams amiss - I retort

And when I find peace - I find fort

With bracelet along on my path

I don't choose the premise of wrath

I spill my tears down in my home

And slowly, queen-like, got on throne

I am stronger than I imagined

And many still think that I'm fragile

Yet all that is quite much amiss

As I've found in heart my own bliss

With years down the path I've grown more

And prosperous life came to core

With happiness, love in alignment

I've discovered a soulful refinement

Just like grandma had wished on the bracelet

I've discovered my path and my placement

I'd grown into the one who protects

Into powerful grace with respects