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Beauty And The Beast

There she runs,
Bamby of the woods of his heart,
frolicking about the low leaves
and high roots.

Look, she joys in the freedom
of the trees,
holding back the world
like some ancient harness
that binds the black god
to his stool.

There's her innocence,
leaping in the mist,
drinking of the ambience
of courtly bird songs.

He sees through the eyes
of a crouching beast:
He picks up her scent,
and his decorum is vanquished.

His love is like
a wolf on the prowl,
it lusts against his will,
and devours on its own instincts.

She moves like the wind,
he flies like her shadow.

She flitters like a butterfly,
He reads her like a moth:
Was there no beauty
the beast did not find?

He cannot resist the inevitable.

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I would rather be the Bamby, and live my way than to be tormented by the killer you had better read some of Gee's works lol.
Loved this piece it gives the two points of view very well,
Yours Ian.T

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There are a million reasons to believe in yourself,
So find more reasons to believe in others..

Thanks Ian. That was one point of the piece, to present the contrast, and I'm glad you got that one. And no, being blissfully ignorant is comfy enough for Bamby, and my curiousity will get the better of me.

Better to be in the rough play than to be blissfully unaware...

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - TS Eliot

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