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

[halfshellvenus]

I liked the structure here very much, the repetition with the different angles revealing the narrator and those affected.

Sometimes the truth is too important to withold, despite how much it will hurt and how hard it is to hear. Sometimes it is simply the only way to make things right.

[kajel]

So beautifully done.

[labelleizzy]

reminded me a bit of the love triangle in Les Miz: Eponine, Marius, Cosette. Beautiful and also very sad.