A Valentine's Day Poem about "Beauty"!
Copyright © 1995 by Odell Sneeden Hathaway III Happy St. Valentine’s Day! If someone came to me and asked me to create “Beauty,” I would be lost. For all that I could do is try to make a duplicate of you! I would try to make this “Beauty” as caring as you are. I would raise it near a stream, where it could go for walks with a cat and could learn humor and love. I would have this “Beauty” rescue the cat in a thunderstorm so it would learn compassion and passion. I would try to duplicate your upbringing, but I would never have the heart to temper this “Beauty” the way your pain has tempered you, or show it the ugliness that you have seen. And so, it would not be able to shine the way you do and could only be a piece for show — not a real living person like you are, and therefore it would not be truly beautiful at all. Through this education, this “Beauty” would develop a beautiful soul like the one I see radiating from you. Of course, I would connect that soul wit...