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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447249" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Beauty And The Beast</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Beauty And The Beast<br>Date: February 16,2012</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Callous…self-centered<br>Like a rat, scampering from some darkened sewer<br>To gobble up the last vestiges of honey <br>Dripping from the cup</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watch as you make a meal<br>Of the meager offerings<br>Then twitch and yawn, your eyes greedy<br>Searching, already hungry for more</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Easing from your comfort zone<br>Nervous to be seen by the sun's gold rays<br>You make haste to plunder the reserves<br>Taking, as long as the haul is free and unspoiled by obligation</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You crow, while I struggle…haunted by whispers I cannot discern<br>I find myself searching, searching in swamps of regurgitated bile<br>Dipping my cup to drink, then retching at the taste<br>Repulsed by the frenzy of my own obsessions</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am incensed at my powerlessness to stand straight<br>And lash out, in a candy coated storm<br>My rage distilled by sugary purrs of undying love<br>And ill-fated missiles doomed to miss their mark</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In my effort, I take up arms and blast away<br>Aiming to pierce the heart of the sleeping beast<br>Hoping the venom of bitterness sinks in<br>And delivers me to the wretched land of contempt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I loathe not the rat, oh no, not even the man<br>But myself, for the utter nonsense of my will<br>I search to place blame for my entrapment<br>Banging my head against rusty bars of a self-made prison</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pray in the blackness of shadows<br>Willing myself to hate the air that he breathes<br>For it reeks of old scars, heartburn<br>And births a cold bitterness layered decades deep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But my mind, still split and skewered to the spit<br>Suffocates on fumes of mockery<br>I scold myself…berating my heart<br>For undoing a package so neatly bound<br> <br>I claim that it is love that keeps me here<br>With plate in hand, arms outstretched<br>Offering cream to the fat bastard <br>Who cannot see beyond his own appetence</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, I keep bending to taste the same old poison<br>Circling, circling…like a vulture<br>Seeking a free lunch along empty highways<br>Unconcerned with the quality of the meal</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's funny how the eyes can be tricked to see beauty<br>Where there is none<br>Or perhaps it's my warped view of beauty that is the beast<br>Either way….for the life of me…I cannot turn my eyes away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">************************************* ********<br>Copyright © 2012 Leria Hawkins, All Rights Reserved</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Leria+Hawkins">Leria Hawkins</a><div class=q>
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Date: February 16,2012

Callous…self-centered
Like a rat, scampering from some darkened sewer
To gobble up the last vestiges of honey 
Dripping from the cup

I watch as you make a meal
Of the meager offerings
Then twitch and..."></div>
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