Friday, December 26, 2008

Beautiful

beautiful (byū'tə-fəl)
adj.
1. Having qualities that delight the senses, especially the sense of sight.
2. Excellent; wonderful.

What is beautiful?
But a word, a phrase
A speech impediment
For the hopeless joyful?

A loving endearment
Or cover up.
Sunshine against the cloud rim
With rain that takes it
Makes it dim.

What is beautiful?
But people dead and left to God
Left preserved in pictures, minds
While turning dust and wind unwinds

Something wanted
yet never found
lost in thought
or left around
in corners of us
That we never touch
A glory above this
Far too much

What is beautiful?
but pleasing colors
light and sound
a thought perfection
perfect round
What we know
of
Not who we are
What we want
Or how we love
this

In my palm, in my heart
That beats alive and will soon stop
Nothing lasts
Not love, not life, not me
or you
the true blue
of life, I see
Something so cold
So sudden to feel
So deadly serious
So utter real
is beautiful.

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