When Beauty Is Broken

When Beauty Is Broken

When beauty is broken,

We have no instinctive filter.

 

(Love is to beauty too dear;

Without one, the other can’t be spoken.)

 

Unless we fall back on fight, hate or fear.

 

Fight can help protect, or sustain,

            But it should not found.

            It cannot be primary.

            You should not ground on fight;

            That is base will-to-power.

 

Will-to-fear is the fountain of fear;

            Fear itself is submission.

            ‘They’ will you to do something

            And make you fear, if you won’t.

            That is not an all bad condition,

            As long as what is willed

                        Is not bad.

 

Will-to-hate is to strike out

            And should come from fear.

            Fear of danger for what you love

                        Danger to what is beautiful.

            But if we don’t love,

            We hate just in order to motivate.

                        It makes action easy to take

                                    And fulfill.

 

Hate and fear, make action easier.

            They make it easy to direct the will.

 

Fight makes it clear,

            Who has the power to will.

 

Will-to-beauty is art

            It is a will to order,

                        To place value

                                    Based on love or care

                        Not on fear

                                    Hate

                                                Or power

            Beauty is power

                        But power of persuasion

                                    To believe in what is good

                                                And to realize, what is good.