I have often heard…
That the most beautiful thing on Earth
is gazing into the eyes
of someone who knows their true worth…
After you’ve spent your entire life
Trying to please
and entertain someone with a wretched disease…
Your righteous spirit became bruised.
The petals of the rose
lining the insides of the gloves
didn’t soften the blows.
Your essence became obscured
Because the narcissist beat, begged, and lured
You into resentment.
There was nothing under the sun
that you could have done
To let the conceited know
That you are human also.
By loving them, you became… Rib,
Clawing and scratching your way into their chest
Only to find that the heart that you were supposed to protect
Had vanished into thin air!
But I declare!
You have healed!
You have blossomed and continue to proliferate
With eyes that are flowers!
The kind that I have never seen before…
I implore…
that every time their mind attempts
To conjure the image of another,
In the very depths of their head
They will always think of you instead.
I have also heard that
We can hear the beauty and the harmony of love
When listening to someone talk
About the person that they are most fond of,
It’s easy to get lost in the symmetry of pure souls…
Yours… endless as the sky, and as deep as the ocean…
residing within your eyes…
Righteousness dwells at depths that remain untouched,
but I’m willing to drown while trying to reach.
Your beauty is
The essence of butterflies
Living freely…
Birthed without a womb!
Beauty erupted from the cocoon.
Winter turning to spring with
The flutter of butterfly wings
Yes there is beauty… un-denied
In you, me, when we
Can erase all sin
And realize that beauty is deep within.
If we embrace, with style and grace… inner peace of mind,
The place where the sordid and unclean could never defile…
Then the real true beauty will finally be revealed…
When we finally allow ourselves to be healed.
James Heilman 3/2/22
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