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And Still The Saying Goes
by Philip F De Pinto
From evening till sunrise
He called you beautiful beautiful
Always beautiful
You took the compliments in your stride
But in your heart you knew otherwise
That you were as homely as the cruel gods could conceive
Homely homely homely
So the mirror muttered neath its foggy breath
Morning noon and evening -- homely homely homely
And given you were not one to dispute such
A shiny barometer as never erred on such matters
Took matters in your own hands
And rushed your homely tail off to the plastic surgeon
Trusting his plastic art instead to make you so
And so he did to your great satisfaction
And still the saying goes
That beauty is in the eye of the beholder
And what is the eye of the one
Who beheld you beautiful beautiful
All day yesterday and the day before
And the day before that
To make of such beauty today
But that it was fleeting
02/02/2014 Posted on 02/02/2014
Copyright © 2024 Philip F De Pinto
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Clara Mae Gregory on 02/02/14 at 06:26 PM *****STELLAR*****
INDEED, Beauty is fleeting.....but never the kind where the beauty comes from the inside...the eternal beauty of the soul....all the plastic surgery in the world can never create beauty if the inside is ugly.
that beauty is eternal |
| Posted by Quentin S Clingerman on 02/02/14 at 09:13 PM The surgeon cannot take away or enhance the real beauty that someone sees in a person. A telling commentary on what integrity is all about. |
| Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 02/03/14 at 02:06 AM Fie on mirrors, fie! You've painted this dilemma very well, Philip, or should I say, beautifully. |
| Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 02/03/14 at 03:37 PM Important lesson here Phil, well conveyed through the relationship/interaction you've cited. |
| Posted by Rob Littler on 02/04/14 at 05:59 AM heard a story of a man who sued his ex for ugly children...guess she didn't disclose her ugliness prior to copulating...poor world. In the end, the truth of great satisfactions rule, true, true, truer words never writ. |
| Posted by Gail Wolper on 02/12/14 at 12:20 AM BRILLIANT! I do think that last line was unexpected and threw the poem out of the playing field, love it |
| Posted by George Hoerner on 06/06/17 at 04:06 PM Just read this for the first time and it is very nicely done my friend. Hope all is well! |
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