The comfort of maltreated ladies
A lover's soul is always full of tears,
but he can never shed them,
for they are not tears that flow that easily
like water, but must needs some treatment
to at all have any proper outlet.
There is one possible treatment only,
and that is the poet's temperament,
that transforms those precious tears
into the costliest jewels
as a neverending flow of riches
from a cornucopia of beauty
only for the pleasure of man's virtual eyes
and for the comfort of maltreated women,
who in poet's tears transformed into dreams
of beauty find a love of greater worth
than any man's discharge of natural brutality.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-10-03 at 10:02
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