A Lesson Learned

I at once with humbled gaze Caught sight of beauty’s prize With skilful sly and knowing craft Medusa met my eyes Ne’er again will sight so fair Afflict a heart so sore What yielded I so freely Was tossed upon a floor Lovely eyes of hazel brown Cloaked the soul behind And hid a heart like diamond And a tortured troubled mind What twists a spirits natural grace With ugliness and hate What turns the fire once beautiful To ashes in the grate There is a law surpassing all Whose statutes truth impart Though beauty lies within the eye Love dwells within the heart