Monday, October 14, 2024

A Paean to Pulchritude

 

The body is an opus, a creation—

always meant to stand as affirmation

that the human form, and the feminine

kind way more, and albeit mortal, as time

 

sets to sculpt back into stone and dust,

was made to bear into the world

a face of a god or a goddess even.

Even where its gleam is marked

 

by an umbra, its canvas’ dark part,

where each bend and line or arc

ties us in a cosmic dragon’s folds

 

in whose grasp a pearl is, and the pearl

is a treasure, and the treasure—our heart,

and the heart—our soul’s lost memory.

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