Perception Skewed By Love

In the eye of the beholder.

Perception Skewed by Love

 

By Elton Camp

 

Poems always praise lovers to the sky

Due to love, I fear the poets went awry

Her hair is beautiful as gleaming silk?

Why do I not spot any girls of that ilk?

 

Her eyes are clear pools of such delight?

The girls that I see use theirs only for sight.

Her cheeks are so beautiful and rosy red?

In most girls, they are the sides of her head

 

Her lips are full and the shape so fine?

Where do they find women that divine?

Girls I notice, their lips look well enough

They’re shaped to talk, eat, and such stuff

 

Her nose is more beautiful than you can tell?

The women I see use theirs mainly to smell

Her neck is white and graceful like a swan?

How would a neck, long as that, be any fun?

 

On and on the extravagant description goes

Until they’ve gone from her head to her toes

I wonder how a creature glamorous as she

Interested in any normal man could ever be