Sparingly...

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A life spent  taking care
of appearances
appreciation
of beauty as truth
then suddenly
a question that jolts.
truth
of things turning ugly?
I feel like taking down
all pretenses and covers.
Whatever lies beneath
hidden
is the truth
even though ugly.
In facing it I live
truly
and living truly is beauty.
I have lived
till now
sparingly.

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Larger than life
is a display
of power and
arrogance.
Big edifices
are meant
to dwarf
those who come 
to occupy them.
What put me
here?
Not the exquisiteness
of my body,
nor the big window
to the world,
but a foolish
desire to tell
the world
how small and ugly
it is.
Loveliness is
of the statue,
and so also
loneliness.
Love is humanism
divine and
divinely human.