The Memory of Sea Glass - A Jewel of Rebirth
The beginning was in the distant past, far beyond the reach of time.
When the Earth was still a fiery orb, glowing with a deep, furious red.
The magma cooled, the land took on new forms, and eventually, the atmosphere was born.
Clouds began to drift, and the rain poured down. And in this way, the very first ocean was created.
The Sands of Transformation: A Grain's Journey
On that very shore, a single grain of sand lay.
Blown by the wind, washed by the waves, and warmed by the sun,
it endured the long passage of time before being transformed by human hands into "glass."
That glass was shaped into a bottle,
and within someone's life, it was used to hold a cherished drink.
The Bottle's True Sea Journey
One day, its purpose fulfilled, the bottle was carelessly discarded.
It was swept away by the waves, returning to the deep sea.
But this, in fact, was the beginning of the bottle’s "true journey."
At the bottom of the ocean, the sharply broken glass pieces,
over long years, were polished by the waves, losing their sharp edges.
They began to hold a soft light, like that of frosted glass.
Echoes of a Mended Vessel
The memory of the cold and lonely bottle,
like an empty vessel,
was slowly being healed by the warmth of the sea.
One day, Shō found a fragment of it
on a quiet beach.
The moment he held it in his palm,
his heart stirred.
