beautiful and broken

everything beautiful was broken once,

being shattered up to the point when

breathing turned into an exhausting chore

and existence became a nagging distress

just to feel the pain and the pleasure,
everything beautiful
saw itself being crushed
like a frail yellow autumn leaf suffocating beneath a muddy boot

everything beautiful
was once plagued by despair
sinking in paranoia, it understood the gravity
‘cause
everything beautiful
had once felt too much

once everything beautiful
chose to shed one less tear
turning that tear into an emotion
it became art
'cause
everything beautiful
stricken with fear
hid in a closet for too long

and
everything beautiful
was once a caterpillar that crept you out
‘cause
everything beautiful
might not be beautiful before

the metamorphosis is astonishing
but the process was certainly agonizing
once everything broken chose to be fearless
thence, it fixed the definition of beauty
and become
everything beautiful

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