Addiction To Beauty

By Daniel Helman Lee

Addiction is our duty.The world bleeds beauty

Leaks it like ink

Into every existing

Atom of things.

The world bleeds beauty

Pulsates and pumps it

And drums it

And thrums it

Like a heart in a body,

Into every existing

Atom of things.

Beauty indelibly saturates airs;

Molecules mate in erotic affairs;

Intangible things are pregnant with weight,

Pregnant with beauty, pregnant with fate.

In mists draping mountains,

Fogs unfurling to clouds;

In gurgling, burbling fountains,

Beauty bends, murmurs, bows.

Beauty clamors and clings

To elusive and tangible things;

Things like dreams that dream,

Dreams that unseam

To spill and fill

Into every existing

Atom of things.

Beauty clings and clamors

To every stagger and stammer

Of bare branches fracturing skies,

Fracturing evil, fracturing lies,

So truth—

Can shine through;

So beauty—

Can shine true.

So truth and beauty—

Can shine through and true.

The world bleeds beauty;

By Daniel Helman Lee