LJ Idol - Week 16 - A Terrible Beauty Has Been Born

[monkeysugarmama]

There is something beautiful in you, an innocence that blinds you to all that is twisted inside me.
Let me guard you from what you can’t see.

There is something beautiful in lies, pleas to perpetuate or to protect, desperate untruths whispered or yelled, out of kindness but more often fear.

There is something beautiful in us, and I wonder at the

Comments

[penpusher]

Great mirror quality in the construction of the poem, and in the underlying meaning. So tragic and so human.

[monkeysugarmama]

Many thanks to you.

[eqfe]

Powerful!

[monkeysugarmama]

Thank you, B!

[karmasoup]

Really strong sentiments, both beautiful and terrible... a tragic kindness.

[monkeysugarmama]

It's been years and yet there are times I see something on FB that still breaks a chip off my heart!

[tonithegreat]

First of all: :-(

Second: Ooh, that is a terrible beauty. Great idea for a subject in verse.

[monkeysugarmama]

Thank you! I thought, since the quote originally came from a poem, perhaps letting it inspire poetry was fitting!

[bleodswean]

Wonderfully done! And dark and provoking!

[monkeysugarmama]

Thank you!