Hidden Beauty

May God be praised!

So here's another flashback to the past...another poem in the collection of reflections that I wrote in 8th grade. Enjoy!

Hidden Beauty

• Hidden beauty,


• Everywhere.


• No—perhaps not


• Quite so hidden.


• Visible to everyone,


• If they would only


• Look.


• What does it take


• To see it, then?


• Courage, that is certain.


• Courage to


• Get out of your


• Comfort zone.


• Courage to


• Have a radical


• Experience.


• Courage to


• Step outside of


• The box.


• Courage to


• Be alone in


• Your decision.


• Courage to


• Stand when


• No one else is.


• Courage to


• Be strong.


• Courage to


• Be different than


• The normal.


• Courage to


• Set high standards.


• Courage to


• Defy that which is


• Pulling you down.


• But most of all,


• Another courage


• Is needed.


• Courage to


• Love.


• The courage to


• Feel for others


• Die for them


• Have kindness


• Flowing out


• To those who


• Do not deserve it,


• To those who


• Defy it.


• To those who


• Give no kindness


• Or love


• In return.


• The hidden beauty,


• The joy


• That is felt.


• The happiness—


• True happiness—


• That overcomes


• All things.


• This beauty,


• This joy,


• This happiness,


• Is not to be


• Hidden.


• We must have


• Courage,


• So that one day,


• We might find,


• True,


• Hidden,


• Beauty.