we started off pure gold

We started off pure gold, then people began polluting us when we were too young to fight back. If a jeweler now examined you he might exclaim, "What happened to you? You turned into pyrite!" Don't be worried by such a candid remark; don't let it depress you for there is a way to reverse this process. Everything I write gives practical clues, clues, clues! poem by Rumi