Witty Profiles
Eyes
Wide Shut
Why is it that the human race
Does value those of fairest
face?
Do they value not what lies
below?
What doesn’t on the surface show?
I sit here and I ponder this
Is beauty all that merits
bliss?
For those whose beauty’s past skin
deep
Is there naught but to cry and to
weep?
How often he whose skin is
fairest
Is also he whose soul is
barest?
Is it such a mortal sin
To hold one’s beauty ‘neath the
skin?
For we whose strength is not first
sight
Claim happiness is too our
right
If they refuse to see the
light
Can they escape an endless
night?
But a prison has long been
devised
By those who see with just their
eyes
Their ties to humanity will soon be
cut
If they live with their eyes wide
shut.
*(This is NOT my poem. My
friend’s brother wrote it a couple years ago, and I love
it.)
3 faves · 2 comments · Feb 3, 2012 8:56pm
yourmom7911
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1 decade ago
Has it occurred to you that a lot of good-looking people actually have good hearts also? I hate how everyone on this website is so blatantly stereotypical towards them. And no, I'm not an offended good looking person saying this. I'm an ugly sophomore guy who hasn't had a girlfriend in his life. I'm just frustrated by the pages and pages of the same thing. However, I must say, not looking at it from that angle, this is a pretty well written poem.
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gigglebox4214 · 1 decade ago
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Thank you. As I said, I can't take credit for it (but wish I could!) It's true what you said, though. I'm afraid I'm a rather judgmental person that has a hard time seeing past people's looks if they're "too pretty." I need to get over it, but struggle with it as I'm rather insecure about my own looks as well (though my mother swears I'm beautiful. But then again, she's my mom!) And I've never had a boyfriend in my life either, so it looks like we have something in common. :)
Thank you for the input!