Beauty and the Beast: A Triptych
published

I. Song One

poem

Falling over like a fool,

When you act so winter cool,

Next to fire, wet and cold,

Like a wall consumed by mould.

Just a ploy, is just a ploy,

Drowning everything in joy.

Rolling over like a sphere,

To inspect its squarish peer,

Since you care, why don't you dare?

Squares don't roll, but spheres do care.

Just a ploy, is just a ploy,

Like a lemon lost to cloy,

Drowning everything in joy.

Falling over like a fool,

Still a sphere that loves the pull,

Still the one who bends and turns,

For a square that never learns.

Just a ploy, with little joy,

Terrified by π and why.

Just a ploy. A joy of ploy,

Drowning everything in nay.

Geometric joy, in sway.

Just a ploy, is just a ploy,

Draining even joy of joy.

Every circle breaks apart,

On the corners of a heart.

For the ploy of joyful nay,

Just forget about the π.

Everything is just of clay.

Shapes and shadows of a lie.

Say goodbye,

And then, goodbye.

To π, to hope

and then to why.