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June 7, 2010
By freeyourmind PLATINUM, Princeton, Illinois
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freeyourmind PLATINUM, Princeton, Illinois
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You can never truly appreciate what's good in life until you have experienced what's bad.

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What makes a person beautiful?
What makes you beautiful to me?

Is it the way you tuck hair behind your ear?
Or is it the way your smile can calm the maddest of seas?
Is beauty in the words that you speak to me
Unknowing that every syllable, and every vowel
Can cure a hatred in my heart that no man can shake?

Is beauty in your eyes?
Is it in your laugh?
Does beauty pulsate throughout the universe
With each of your heartbeats?

No.
And yes.

Beauty is neither all nor none of those.
True beauty is, to me
Looking at you everyday, and knowing,
That I love you.

© Megan M., Ashville, OH

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Cammie45874 SILVER said...
on May. 24 2012 at 11:26 am
Cammie45874 SILVER, Ohio City, Ohio
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I have read pretty much everything you have posted on this site and i think you are more talented than most. Everything u write has so much raw emotion and it is inspiring.
Authorgal98 GOLD said...
on Feb. 14 2011 at 9:33 pm
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So sweet! Okay, you keep writing, I'll keep reading. Deal? ;)