"BEAUTY IN WORDS"

'Come with me,' my Muse said to me one day,
'I have something to show you.
Not everything you see will be pretty,
But it needs poetry, too.'

I saw ash covered streets when Towers fell.
And Northern Lights in the sky.
I saw pain described in ten thousand ways.
And I saw God up on high.

I saw our soldiers as they died in war.
And the miracle of birth.
I saw the dangerous side of weather.
And the beauty of the Earth.

I saw children as they struggled to live.
And butterflies on the wing.
I saw the news get worse every day.
And I saw beautiful things.

I saw lightning dance across stygian clouds.
And the joy of a sunrise.
I saw things that would give someone nightmares.
And puppies with their sad eyes.

'What have you learned?' my Muse asked as night came,
'Why have I asked you to write?'
'There is beauty in words, they must be said,
That's how a poem takes flight.'

(C) Copy written, 25 September, 2004, by Karla Dorman.