Monday, August 12, 2024

Beauty denied 2014

 

it is folly to believe

 beauty such as hers

should be hid away

unspied upon

unwitnessed

when even the worst of us

would admire it this potency

even if we can but scan

from a distance

and wish we could

praise it more closely

yet she seems to determine

 to keep it in a box

or in a shell

to divy out only to those

 she seems worthy

when like a rose

or rare piece of art

 such should not be given

 only to those few

 when a world waits to glimpse it

even when we know

no man can possess

it save in passing

 


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