I did then see

Copyright ©November 27, 2001 by Richard J. Sereday Jr.
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In this world, I walk
and I see,

I see so many things
that make me wonder why,

why I can't be happier
with who and what I am.

My weight, it isn't where 
I wish it to be,
so I feel bad, I feel sad.

But then I see one whom is
literally two times my size,
and then I feel so foolish.

Oh, how good I have it 
and I can't even see.

I then see the pretty boys
that get all the pretty girls,

and I wonder why 
I can't be as pretty,


until I see a man who is,
a victim of a fire.

A face of scares and mutilation,
a horror to the eye,

then I see in me my beauty,
it comes mostly from within,

from the realization that
we are all of one cloth.

Beneath in a place
deeper than skin,
deeper than beauty,
we are all humans being human,

so our faults, they are forgiven
and our imperfections understood

by the understanding of this earth 
as well as
that guy in the sky.

To the heavens I did gaze,
and deep inside I searched
and the answers I was looking for
I did then see.