Share Your Beauty

Freshman year I decided I was going to be a great poet. That never actually happened but looking back on somethings I had written 2 poems caught my eyes. The first is titled "If only". It's about the power we all have to change the world by following our dreams. If any of you have read Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist you'll have a better understanding of where I'm comming from. Anywho the idea I'm trying to get across is that each of us has been given a great gift that we are called to share with the world. If we never did the world would ammount to so much less because of our fear.

If the stars in the sky

Were as bright as your eyes

I wouldn’t be afraid of the dark.

I guess then that it’s sad

That as a young lad

I’ve never been out in the night.

If there was a place

With the beauty; your face

Then forever I would stay there.

I guess then that it’s sad

That as a young lad

That place has yet to be found.

If the trees in the wind

Could sway like your limbs

Then forever would I be dancing

I guess then that it’s sad

That as a young lad

I’ve never been able to dance.

If only you didn't keep hold

Of all of your dreams in their mold

Then maybe I could have done more

I guess then that it's sad

That as a young lad

You could never know your full worth

 

Okay, this next one is about a person's discovery of their greatness and that they need no one else but themselves to do great things.

We danced

Well, we were to dance

Under the sky on a moon lit night,

Filled with every emotion but fright,

Caught in the arms of a lover’s grasp,

Warmth like being covered in a sunny cast.

Danced is what while waiting I did

For the love of my lover to come and bid

You did not come and I was alone

Dancing under a night’s starry tone

But strangely enough, I did not fear

Even though you were never near

The flow of the body

Smooth motion in limbs

Gives a sense of satisfaction

Filling emotional whims

I learned that night a most important thing

That it is only ourselves who can open our wings.

I do not have my lover’s warmth

Nor the gaze of his piercing eyes

But I have the knowledge that fulfilled are they

Who live great lover’s lives.

-maddy