Generations Of God Church International

(GGCI FAMILY CHURCH)

....the CHURCH where God answers every PRAYER. 

TRANSIENT RADIANCE

By Elder Emeka Obiandu

Amongst her friends,

She’s peerless in beauty.

Her outward grace

Is nature's favour.

By her distinction,

She is like the lone product

of one creative day.

Alas, beauty is but a loan,

With its date and rate.

In her hollow pride,

This sublime Elegance,

Shuns the admiring world.

Like shoddy wrapped in damask,

Like gold-plated cast iron,

Her essential fibre,

Beauty’s hostage,

Is cocooned in an ornate shell.

But only for a while,

For nothing endures

but the substance.

As damask wears and tears,

Time reveals the shoddy.

When iron rusts and flakes,

Beauty departs with its retinue.

Then from her pedestal of envy,

The peerless must take her place,

In the common crowd

of the undistinguished.

Emeka Obiandu