B and the B by Philip F De Pinto I know beauty When I see it Walking toward Or away from me Have know it even When it was standing still For the few times That it stood still for me Or merely idling to catch its breath For the many in dogged pursuit Who not trusting beauty from without Would with their trusty knives see to her innards To see if she held equal beauty within I have encountered Such beauty On the roadside When she was so defiled And breathing her last And have had to Reinsert all the beautiful stuffing And with thread and needle sew and Stitch and nurse her back to hale Dare I say I have known beauty when She has stood still Enough to have me clasp her hand Which was untold wealth To hold And dare I say She did not flinch Or rebuff the paw Which I presented her Dare I say I've walked hand In hand with such beauty Dared clasp her hand In a land where hand Holding was strictly forbidden A faux pas For which beauty and I were savagely beaten and tried Found guilty and incarcerated And put in adjacent cells The bars through which we were permitted To hold hands Given there is no law In this land Which forbids The holding of hands in jail Needles to say We are still incarcerated Beauty and I Hands still committing the most atrocious Faux pas Still refused parole Which disturbs us not the least Given their jail is the only place Which bids us the liberty Of such which delights us no end 11/27/2013 Posted on 11/27/2013 Copyright © 2024 Philip F De Pinto Member Comments on this Poem Posted by Veronica Phoenics on 12/09/13 at 12:35 PM made me think of marriage possibly as a self imposed and enjoyable but society imposed bind, such an original write and layered, deep, profound even, beautifully crafted. "it stood still for me Or merely idling to catch its breath For the many in dogged pursuit" These lines really stood out for me. Return to the Previous Page   pathetic.org Version 7.3.2 May 2004 Terms and Conditions of Use 0 member(s) and 2 visitor(s) online All works Copyright © 2024 their respective authors. Page Generated In 0 Second(s)