Tasteless Vulgarity

I saw this picture and thought..that's not necessary, and then I paused, and thought like the writer I am and decided that I was wrong, there was beauty in this picture...an intensity that you could miss if you didn't look closely...there is beauty all ar

Can you see the beauty of the things you do not value?

You look around and see that those people aren't touting your values,
and yet, they seem to be living life high and fine, a puzzle for your mind.

Lovers loving other like themselves, something you can't comprehend,
people changing the plumbing they were made with, you're perplexed.

You see faces studded with spikes and hoops and balls and loops,
and ears color coded with gauges and rings and cuffs and studs.

You wonder why people share proudly with the world
things that you feel are not to be shared, not to be proud of.

Judge, Jury, and Executioner is how you see yourself,
you've set your pedestal up high...lonely on your soapbox.

It's clear to me that all you see is simply tasteless vulgarity,
and yet it's sad, what a world of living you are missing
with your small-minded refusal to open your eyes...
and see, that in everything, no matter your view, there is beauty.