Dear Geologist, identify me

Walk and think, think and look

There is no one with you to talk

There is certainly someone to ask

“Tell me, who and where am I”?

 Give me some time oh! dear rock.

I am glassy or hard and compact

With grains of quartz, feldspar, micas

Crystallized with interlocking crystals

At times I am jointed and fractured

From deep mantle I was solidified

Yes, you are an Igneous, I confirmed.

 I am layered, banded with laminae

With grains of sand, silt, and clay

Deposited, lithified and folded

Chemicals, precipitates too get bedded

Imprints of ancient life founded

You can measure dip and strike with ease 

Yes, you are Sedimentary, I am sure.

I am hard and dense or foliated  

I was subjected to high heat and pressure

With new recrystallized minerals and texture

I am totally transformed from my parents

Physical and chemical changes I endured 

The past life imprints I can’t preserve

Yes, you are Metamorphic, I  swear.

From deep magma to mountain crest

From hills and plains to the wide basins

We shift, change and we transform

Time and earth reshape our form

Read our story, Geologist oh! dear

Etched in us, over millions of years.