My Name is Jade

I have persona. I have charisma. My sound tone and color are unique and have subtle charm. I am hard, tough, and enduring, but have the feel of a warm and living thing in your hands and on your body. You made of me an amulet and talisman for your good fortune, a fetish and a totem for your magical and ancestral spirits. I was the symbol of your sacred things and the status of your ancestors. I whisper: I am your closest touch to eternity. I will please and protect you as I did the earliest of you, when the grasp of an arboreal hand climbed down from the tree and picked me up to pound and hurl and cut out lives that walked upright and spread across the earth. My name is Jade.