Transactional Beauty

By:

Moller, Wyatt

Transactional Beauty

As I walk my lonesome morning trot

I peer above my particular plane

The trees above boast glistening knots

The dawnlight prancing without feigning.

And so the abounding ferocity clambers

Into the recesses of my mind’s chambers

The elegant tragedy of wanting to join

But knowing the sanctity of such coin

Rage unchecked by reasonable thought

Pains me yet by internal fraught.

My bones themselves convulse with fury.

I know not why this tree angers me so,

I yearn to grasp the beauty it shows.

But this existence heedeth not,

To the unrequited love

Bursting ere that tree above.

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Transactional Beauty