Poetry time: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (12th December 2018)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:

Fly Bee, fly.

Take your holder and have him behold

The beauty you find,

Buzzing from tower to flower,

For there is no beauty here.

So fly,

Mister Bee, carrying your bee holder

To behold beauty.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:

Fly Bee, fly.

Take your holder and have him behold

Not I; behold true beauty.

For my face is pudgy and ugly,

And my hair accentuates its flaws.

So fly,

Mister Bee, carrying your bee holder

To behold beauty.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:

Fly Bee, fly.

Take your holder and have him behold

Not I; behold true beauty.

For my body is short and stout,

And my clothes accentuate its flaws.

So fly,

Mister Bee, carrying your bee holder

To behold beauty.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:

Fly Bee, fly.

Take your holder and have him behold

Not I; behold true beauty.

For my soul is broken and dirty,

And my personality inflates its flaws.

So fly,

Mister Bee, carrying your bee holder

To behold beauty.

But the bee does not fly

And carry its bee holder to behold

Beauty.

Thee bee stays and the bee holder

Beholds me.

Behold, I behold the bee holder’s eye

Which beholds me beholding.

So I learn the pupil if the bee holder

For truths about beauty.

Yet, behold, in the iris I see my own eye

Reflected in the bee holder’s eye

Beholding me beholding the bee holder’s eye

And in my eye I see

A cataract of judgement

Made by lies about true beauty

And the bee holder beholding me

Breaks my eye free of the cataract

And beholds my healed eye beholding the

Eye of the bee holder.

This is an accompanying illustration I drew to go alongside my poem.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:

Fly Bee, fly.

Take your holder and have him behold

True beauty.

But let me hold on to the bee holder

And behold his beholding eye

To learn what beauty is from

The eye of the beholder.

As I search the eye of the beholder

I see only I reflected in the eye of

The beholder, beholding me

Holding on to the bee holder

Holding on to the bee.

And as I see only I in the eye of

The beholder I realise, truly

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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