Pretty Mad

Stunning and insane, she raged,
I should have felt more fear,
I knew she couldn’t be assuaged,
But her face still drew me near.

Some grapes grow to hate the vine,
Then mature to be a sour wine,
But who can tell without a sign?
Some flowers turn their face from light,
They hide in shadows of the night,
To hold them you abandon sight.
Some creations think themselves divine,
A lamp aloft designed to shine,
She sees all shadows as a fight
Some fools must learn beauty will bite.

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Sometimes I’ll see a news article about a woman who did something horrible, and just below the picture of her mugshot is a guy commenting, “I can fix her.” And sometimes the girls who end up in “mugshot hotties” successfully parlay that into a modeling contract.

Dangerous beauty is a hard lesson to learn. Human instinct innately associates beauty with safety. Wisdom is learning to see beyond the pretty face to the person beneath.