Hidden Beauty

Here's a poem I wrote in August last year, and I hope you enjoy it.

Part of my heart finally feels like singing

And my enclosed emotions feel like ringing;

Breaking forth from where they’ve been

Hidden, and they shall rise again to be seen.

God made this world full of loveliness

But we’ve brought into it ugliness

Instead of the colour and love

That will set me free like a dove.

God made a beautiful world

But so many of us have killed

The true beauty within the soul;

We need to be again made whole.

Keeping our beauty hidden within us

Will rob the earth of who we really are, and thus 

The beauty that will be lost

Will us our inner freedom cost

God is the restorer of all;

He can renew the call

To be ourselves and paint the land in a different shade.

Our hidden beauty must rise or else fade

People think that those who are different

Are eccentric but they don’t get the hint

That we’re the ones who throw

Colour into a grey world and make it glow

We can’t conform or the earth will stay

The dull shade of grey.

God can release the beauty hidden

And we will rise by the world unbidden.