The Cheese Grates It + OctPoWriMo 2017: Day 29: Beautiful Ugly People

Beautiful Ugly People

Not seen as pretty outside

And the insides are too dark

The world tells them to hide

Sometimes they refuse to hide

They risk everything although they are

Not seen as pretty outside

Sometimes it hurts to have pride

Even though they have much to offer

The world tells them to hide

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It's hard to believe in the beauty inside

When you hear every day how ugly you are

Not seen as pretty outside

If you've a best friend who's along for the ride

It can be easier to make the scene although

The world tells them to hide

Per Ohlin

January 16, 1969 - April 8, 1991

If no-one sees the tears that you've cried

It's harder to be walking alone when you're

Not seen as pretty outside

The world tells them to hide

Love,

Cie

Note:

For better or worse, here's my crack at a Villanelle.

I'll be finishing out the challenge because I'm not a quitter, but I won't be sharing any more of my work. Honestly, it's a little tiresome when the only poems anyone wants to read are bright, chipper little odes to spring and twoo wuv. 

I'm sure everyone would have told Edgar Allan Poe to "just cheer up" too. 

I will leave everyone with the thought that maybe people whose minds work differently aren't broken things to be fixed and perhaps the reason we tend to hide and suffer in silence is because any time we share what's on our mind, we are admonished to "stop that stinkin' thinkin'" or are told that one day we'll straighten up and fly right, the often unstated piece being "and if you don't, you're a loser who just didn't try hard enough.
Believe it or not, I actually do have a "light half." I have a blog with no political rants or bleak ruminations whatsoever. It's mostly pictures of plants and nature. It can be found at http://cieswonderfulworld.tumblr.com

~The Cheese Hath Grated It~