Poetry

I See Only Beauty

Jeremy Long

Liquid glass shatters on the sidewalk from the angry skyScattering all the pedestrians like antsThey hurry home to the comfortOf their TV dinners and their television setsWhile I walk the streets—A garbage bag as my raincoat, my heart light

I find Picasso in a puddleAnd stories in the skyOrpheus is playing his lyre tonightWhile gentle Chiron nurses his woundThe sky is my storybookAnd as I settle myself under a peeling park benchI see only beauty

I See Only Beauty Jeremy Long
Jeremy Long, 13
Mission Viejo, California

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