Beauty Once Known

I saw beauty fleeing from a world of hate

Wounded and with bleeding feet she ran

Unwanted turning from the house of man

To leave him to his pride and lust and fate.

I who have worshipped her as my lodestar

Sought her when there was no visible sign

Yet felt my soul through her grow more divine

In loveliness no ravaging time could mar.

She the paramour of truth shall reign

Returning to usher in a greater age

As man aware of his impotent rage

Sheds his cloak of darkness to regain

Beauty once known but through the ego lost

And the light within however great the cost.