Worlds of Beauty

WORLDS OF BEAUTY

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.