The secret of your beauty
It is not only that you were so loved and lovable
but that you were so much of that not just by anyone;
but there was someone closer to you even than myself
who loved you self-effacingly and all through life
until it ended with a broken heart.
That heart must never be forgotten,
especially not now, when it has passed away
transcended and transformed into a spirit
even more profoundly loving, self-effacing and adoring
that peculiar beauty and intensity of yours
amounting to a beauty that can turn just anyone into a madness
of psychotic and exaggerated, self-consuming reckless love,
as if the element of beauty by its mere existence
must result in unintentional but endless reckless cruelty.
I will not go into that trap but all the same remain your lover
most respectfully and humbly to enjoy the highest privilege
of being just your best and closest friend.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-06-15 at 11:45
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