I have been thinking and wrote this……….health in a wider concept perhaps.
Writing is such a part of my emotional health…..
Beauty Therapy in a nutshell
(a muse)
I find myself hungry for beauty.
Not the kind you might think.
Beauty has many faces & unfortunately
the deepest & rarest beauty is born through pain.
Birth is never a painless process.
Ask any woman or polished gemstone.
Beauty sneaks up on me & jumps out from behind doors.
She smiles at you in strange places.
I know this.
The shell I live in does not totally define me,
but it can limit me.
There’s more than meets the eye to the man in the mirror.
I can see who I really am,
who I really can be, who I have rarely been.
I want to live longer, taste life even more deeply,
to love & laugh at myself & the world,
to finally give up being what I am not.
Beauty is not only skin deep.
The peanuts will have to go!
© BlindPoet
June 2010
Well written, my friend. I like your statement, " the shell does not totally define me." I think when the beauty inside is polished, refined, honed, it increases the beauty of the shell. I do have a question. Since the peanuts will have to go, can we have almonds?