Beauty Cloaked In Darkness

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Dark Poetry #3

Beauty Cloaked In Darkness

EternityofChaos
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since 2003-06-16

Posts 1
MN, U.S.A.

0 posted 2003-06-16 03:24 PM

Hey this is Paxia, but I couldn't get into that account, so I had to make a new one. So yeah, this is my second poem.
Any god would cry, to see you die
His angel go unknown
For the cruelty that stays preserved
Lie forever written in stone

A flower blossoms, so beautiful
But only in the dead of night
No one to gaze upon it
For it cannot stand the light

A shot rings out, but no one hears
No one is around
For though in truth the gun was shot
To the outside it made no sound

Just like you're screaming out loud but no one knows
Or even cares to try
No one knows to save you
And all you want is to die

The sweetest, ripest grapes we sow
To make a wine we can never taste
And your god would surely shed tears to know
That your beauty had been laid to waste

Beauty shrouded in darkness
Is the beauty that shall never be seen
The cloak of night shall hide her glory
And ever keep her in hellish dreams

Beauty so young and fragile
Only struggling to reach out to the sun
But darkness calls out to prey on her innocence
And the night has once again won

Few will ever remember
Few will ever know
Through the darknes that's claimed you, no one will see
The beauty you have to show

You hide your face behind the shadows
Keep the cloak so tight around you
You find your refuge in hiding
In the dark abyss surrounding you

You carry your scars and regrets
AS you fly off into the night
And hide from the world all that you are
As on wings of escape you take flight

But beauty, can't you see?
There's nothing for you to hide!
It isn't right that you should suffer
And harbor so much hurt inside

You shouldn't be denied the very light
That you have spent your life reaching out for
YOu were never meant to be a creature of the night
Cursed to fear the day forevermore

I wish there was aught I could do
To keep the darkness at bay
But I can do nothing, I have no power
To wish all this pain away

I can only but watch
As the night takes away all your joy
And I am powerless to help
As your hope it continues to destroy

If only I could preserve your beauty
So it wouldn't go to naught
But like you said, winter always comes
And the rose must succumb to the frost

And I wish I could save you from the night
Carry you away to the day
But the darkness is too strong, I know
And so there forever you stay

All I can do is be here to witness
Your fall from the Tower of Faith
And cry as you land, sad and broken
YOur beauty a disappointing waste

And as your body lay still
Beneath a sky with no stars
I shall be among the few to weep
Who will truly know how beautiful you are.

laurie
Member

since 2003-05-28

Posts 153
canada, ontario

1 posted 2003-06-16 09:38 PM

lf l could, l'd tell you what to change in this, but honestly, l can't think of much of anything that needs to be fixed... your rhyming meter sounds a little forced in one of the first stanzas', but... even thats not too bad.
well written, and... well, wow.
laurie.

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