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| Posted on 12 April, 2016 at 9:05 |
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
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