Thursday, September 13, 2012

Food4thought: Secret Beauty

Secret Beauty


Take me to the beautiful

But what defines beauty?

Is it a physical, balanced appearance?

Measured by critics and fans

Or is it something unseen

Something seldom known



We’ve met people surrounded

By death’s darkest demons

Trampled by lies and lore

Who know of days brighter

Yet have been laid out on the floor



The only break to their haunting silence

An unbearable sneer foreboding defeat

A lie crafted to destroy them

And force them to retreat



Yet their lives still continue through it all

Competing with the rest of us

Perhaps their strength is found deeper

Perhaps they have something more

Despite their losses



What if the desire they have

Is built on something not of this world

What if these people enduring

Were made for more than this

Made to be beautiful in secret



After their skin were to wear away

After their health to fail

After all that suffering

Then their beauty would emerge



Perhaps beauty wasn’t meant to fade

But instead was meant to grow

With each depressing blow

What if this world was

Just a furnace

To remove all impurities

So that the gold in them

Could surface?

  So just so you guys know, I'm currently taking a poetry class so for the next several months, I should be naturally able to provide you guys with a poem every week or so. Have fun reading them and keep running the race!

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