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 You’re the 
Shimmer of
Shocked quartz
In a bed of clay 
And the capillaries
Of gold running 
Through it 

#Poetry 
 Shocked quartz.  Found where lightning strikes, meteors impact, or other cataclysmic violence has occurred.

So, someone has had an effect on you that you liken to such a phenomenon, @Michelle ?  Maybe, though you undervalue yourself as having been a mere "bed of clay" in that case.  And it is interesting that you would represent yourself as, effectively, thunderstruck.

If that interpretation is correct, you pay someone a huge compliment.  But, perhaps, there was always more that shimmers and is shot through with precious metal in yourself than you credit.