Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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.

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