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The Portrait

A painter with a practised brush
A sitter who cannot sit still
A cynical philosopher
A letter on the windowsill

Beauty, innocence and faith
corrupted by intelligence
Feelings unrequited and
forbidden in a social sense

A portrait hidden deep away
in a dark and dusty room
What sins and horrors there may wait
behind a curtain in the gloom?

A wish made by a careless mind
can ruin souls, and murder bring
A pretty face and hair belie
A wretched, tortured, beastly thing.
Written by muffinpoodle
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