Nine Words

I want a five-word sentence about the pain of beauty.

And beauty is painful:

Because you want to be it, and aren’t.

Because you want to sense it all, and can’t.

Because you want it to last, and it won’t.


Laps a tongue at twilight’s scents whispering “…Come….”  Gone.


Okay, nine words…
Copyright © | Year Posted 2005

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