Consider beauty, for a start
Rising up, from within my heart
A cry comes forth, a sigh, a shout
When I see beauty
Though from afar
It tears at my heart
As an open scar
These objects of beauty
Throughout life
Pull at your heart
And cut deep,
Like a knife
A work of art that we see
Stands still in time
And as we move on
Our feelings may flee
When it comes to nature
Nothing lasts
Those places of beauty
Become our past
When it comes to another
That we look upon
We see manifest a beauty
A myriad of feelings doth spawn
But if tis the outward,
we look upon
In time even that
Will long be gone
It is the beauty within
That manifests itself
And over time as the outward fails
The inward tis what prevails
Truth be told
Tis obvious, for all to see
Look within and find
Beauty as vast as the sea
Is it a beauty we want to possess
To which we become obsessed
When this direction we doth go
We weaken our ability to grow
True beauty is Divine
Comes in all things created
The grand and sublime
No one person can possess
Such a thing
For on that path
Sorrows it doth bring
Look with wonder
At the world at large
To the oceans, the land and stars
And should you see with open heart
Another soul that stands apart
Look deep within and behold
Whole universes doth unfold
-Shiidon, December 2009
It has been a bit since my last post. I still have much in my mind but it is coming out at it's own time. I am in the process of digitally transferring my movies to my computer and as a result have been seeing snippets of them as I check the quality of the transfer. In doing so, I have found myself the recipient of a myriad of emotions. I look at a movie that involves the love between two people and many times it moves me. There are emotions that are invoked by the greater love and loss such as the Titanic and then the one between two people such as Vanilla Sky. The latter is an OK movie but the emotions evoked by the love shown between the two lead characters is almost palatable. The lead says at the end of the movie "Look at me, I am in love with you and you are dead." The woman replies with a loving smile "its a problem."
I have written on the subject of love before but this poem seemed to come from this process I went through. When we see a dear soul on the end of this journey of life, do we see them as an old and failing person, or do we see the beauty that is their life and the new journey they are about to continue on. When you see an old movie, say Audrey Hepburn or Cary Grant in Charade, we see a snapshot of two people who are gone. Our lives are a collection of these snapshots that are continuing to update themselves.
We see ourselves in a different light than we show ourselves on the outside. It is the world within that is what is important. There are things that are part of us but uncontrollable. We will age. We will be effected by those that surround us. Do you see me in this light, or do you see me for what is within. Do I see you within or do I see the outer surroundings of inconsequential events and circumstances? This blog and the poems that I write are my way of braking free of the outward and showing a glimpse of the inward. I am a flawed human being, but I do exist and this is a part of who I am.
