More Than GoldA Poem by StormeLightThere 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
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4 Reviews Added on October 17, 2021 Last Updated on October 17, 2021 Tags: poetry, love, materialism, money, romance, childhood, self-esteem AuthorStormeLightOrem, UTAboutJust a writer, artist, and singer-songwriter, trying to stay alive and inspired in this crazy world! more..Writing
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