BURDEN OF BEAUTY

 The Gadfly said, “Beauty is a terrible burden.  It touches our intimate knowing and moves us past our horizons, stretching our souls unto the infinite, tearing the sinews of our compliance to self, laying waste to that well tended garden we call need.  Who shall embrace beauty without fear?  It is only those who are ready to abandon themselves.  For to embrace beauty one must first let go of their lack. In order to feel beauty deeply one must first cease clinging to their sense of want.  But who can expand to the Infinite, while they have confined themselves to digging in the dirt of their own private plots, cultivating the blossoms of their needful things?”