More Than Gold

There once was a boy

Who became a man

He watched with tears

As he desired the girl

The one who was most beautiful

Most beautiful,

The most beautiful girl in all the land

The girl paid him no attention

He watched as she took the hand

Of another boy more beautiful

Most beautiful,

The most beautiful boy in all the land

So when he became a man

He told himself many lies

About the time he could never get

The most beautiful girl in all the land

What he never knew

Her vanity she outgrew

She was no longer the most beautiful

Most beautiful,

In all the land

Beautiful boys,

And beautiful girls

Turn into men and women

One day they learn the value

Of the souls they kept so hidden

But the boys who became men

Are now men,

Still trying to gain

The wisdom they never learned

That you can't change who you are

To make someone see you

One day people grow older

And then they learn

The beauty of their soul

In a world full of pretenders

You see,

My dear boys,

Who never learned to see

Who let rejection be the teacher

Instead of inner wisdom,

You must seek

You think material things,

You think chiseled muscles bring,

The beauties you so desired

From moments of your past

But what you do not see

Is women of quality

Will never value that which rejected you

In the first place

See you went, and you changed

Instead of staying the same

In hopes of one day finding

In hopes of one day proving

You deserve more than rejection

But no woman you can buy

With the gold that you worked hard for

Is worth spending time on

Materials can crumble

Rejection will come again

If you keep chasing dreams

With monetary and physical things

A heart of gold does not know boundaries

Or the conditions for which you set your self-love

It knows only unconditional love

The values which it holds

You cannot convince this heart of gold

That it should love you on conditions

It is only that which cages you

Your volatile self-loathing prison

So now you cannot accept this love

So long for which you longed

Because you hold these standards

The standards that you bought

Reviews

[poetgurl (Plainly Meg)]

such an emotional tug in your words, I sense a certain longing

[StormeLight]

Thank you, yes you caught onto that well. These are things that I witness in my dating life while trying to find love, and in exes that never could have worked out because their self loathing was so strong that, not only could they not love me, they couldn't love themselves either. I can't carry that weight for both of us and so I stay longing and single.

[poetgurl (Plainly Meg)]

I hear you on that one

[StormeLight]

Right? Sigh, yeah.

[Nathen Wellings]

I enjoyed this work very much

[StormeLight]

Thank you!

[no tell writer]

Wow, such an emotional read here, like the message of this write as well

[StormeLight]

Thank you

[StormeLight]

*oops, my message got cut off, thank you! I was very emotional when I wrote it, I am glad it came off that way as well

[Carlos Lorenzo Estrada]

I loved the message of your poem. These words are so true on the nature of love. Thank you for sharing your poem with us.

[StormeLight]

Thank you, and of course! I love to write what I experience and observe.