You're Beautiful

because you're classically trained.
I'm ugly because I associate piano wire with strangulation.

You're beautiful because you stop to read the cards in newsagents' windows about lost cats and missing dogs.
I'm ugly because of what I did to that jellyfish with a lolly stick and a big stone.

The above poem is a snippet from Knopf's Poem-A-Day. The writer is Simon Armitage, a popular British poet today.
http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/04/15/youre-beautiful-by-simon-armitage/


I thought it would be interesting to try to recreate something similar. I challenge you to do the same.

You're beautiful,

because your eyes emit brightness when you see and feel passion;
I'm ugly because my cynicism controls my vision and passion.

You're beautiful because through your perfectionism, you tolerate my imperfections;
I'm ugly because my imperfections desire to be perfect.

You're beautiful because you'll remove the hair on your face if I ask you to;
I'm ugly becuase I curse you for expecting a home-made breakfast on weekend mornings.


Ugly like I am
Beautiful like he is
Ugly like an impossible Leprechaun
Beautiful like a Persian king.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
As we behold each other.