Beautiful Girls

Frantz Charlet, A Morrocan Beauty Holding a Parrot

Girls, your beauty will not save you

the more beautiful you are

the more the hounds will follow you

wanting that beauty for themselves

and once they are done

you will find yourself alone

because some hounds have nothing

beyond what lies between

their legs, it is insatiable

and no one beauty will satisfy it

I've seen the most beautiful girls

whom artists would praise as goddesses

throw themselves at the first hound

that follows them because

to be wanted is everything

to be desired is the highest honor

for a beautiful girl who has

no sense of her own value

You are not this body even if

today it appears dazzling

tomorrow anything can happen

and will happen and

it will take all your endeavor

to maintain that beauty that

men once found so desirable

Girls, you will suffer

girls, you will be forgotten

girls, live for knowledge

throw yourself into your life

and forget the hounds that follow you

clean out your closets and

learn to sing a song that has

nothing to do with belonging

for you belong even if

no one acknowledges you

There are worse things

besides loneliness

and the wounds you get today

a lifetime later may not heal

love and protect yourself today

for there is but one life and

one beauty that does not fade

the beauty of self-honor