28 July 2010

Faces of Beauty


the cruelty of beauty
its appeal to greed
lust its deity
and obsession its breed

the wit of beauty
its bait unseen
wile its ingenuity
and skulduggery in between

the poison of beauty
its toxic grandeur
hypnotic its vanity
and overwhelming its splendor

the frailty of beauty
its withering tendency
rotting in its hollow entity
and demise its destiny


Image: Carlos Schwabe, Fleurs-du-mal horloge, 1900

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