WHEN DONE WELL

By  Kahlil Gibran When the beauty and the ugliness were created The beauty had beautiful clothes And the ugliness had ugly clothes One day, it was early and very hot   They went to a lake then they jumped in Beauty was swimming into the lake Then she saw that the ugliness was missing And her clothes were missing too She recognized that the ugliness had stolen her clothes  The beauty had to wear the clothes of ugliness compulsorily Since then, she trys to searching her with not succes Ugliness need something to hide itself And the man who has a heart throbbing with goodness Do not waste time in silly things They will create  It's certainly that something that need power from outside is not good, it's intrinsically impotent They live in a borrowed life

To a lovely person Save the juices of your heart to somebody This bigger lover who drinks your life Do not crumble yourself in quickly adventures  Give you to, and give you completely good As when you're in a train, watching the hundred landscapes They live, none of them stay with you When the life is giving in tasteless and breifing loves You will arrive with spiritual starving It's an understanding lover, when you feel alright A true love is like a burning sun The most intenses and terrible essences of the life you will drink from it Who didn't love like that, don't pass in vain for the life of the people Worse than impure person is the tasteless lover

I have this kind of susceptibility I'm still so silly that I continue demanding perfection from the people It's so difficult that they don't care about me or even them From this susceptibility I leave out easily the people I leave them off when they don't have anything to me Neither force to life nor truth, consolation or confidence I demand that they are so rich interiorly That they have a life, spiritual and emotional interest's I have already know that is too much to demand But I still requiring