A Valentine’s Day Poem About “Beauty”!
By Odell Sneeden Hathaway, III.
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Copyright © 1995 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" I was making rescue the cat in a thunder storm 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 there for it would not be really beautiful at all. Through this education this "Beauty" would develop a beautiful soul like the one that I see radiating from you. Of course, I would connect that soul with the 2nd most beautiful brown eyes in creation (since the most beautiful are yours). I would have to be careful while working with those eyes, for if I was not careful, the ecstasy I feel while gazing into them would intoxicate me until I was completely lost in them. But would that be so bad. I would give this "Beauty" the ability to dream and not just to dream but the brilliance and the intellect to make it's dreams come true, just the way I know that you have the ability and love to make all of your dreams come true and I hope some of mine as well. I would put this "Beauty" into the body of a goddess with silky brown hair, a smile that could bring light to every dark place in the whole of God's creation, and a laugh that could make a person forget that there was ever pain in the world. The one thing that would be different about this "Beauty" and you would be me. For, I would not let my inexperience, and past make me afraid to tell it how beautiful it was (for I would know that it knew that I meant much more by the word beauty them most), or how lovely it’s hair looks, how nice that out fit looks on it! I would not be afraid to touch it thinking that it would disappear. I would know that it was not a dream and so if it would let me I would be able to hold it's hand or give it a hug good bye at the airport. All these things I want to do with you but am to afraid for the moment to do with you. Above all I would love this "Beauty" I had created just the way that I love you. Most truly! Odell |
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