Love Poem: 'twas Not Beauty Killed the Beast
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Written by: Mike Gentile

'twas Not Beauty Killed the Beast

Storied fables fill the page
                            of many bygone tales 
Penned perhaps to entertain
                               as memory prevails

Some as priggish parables
                                   some as lullabies 
Some weren’t meant to be the truth
                      Some might call them lies

The Wolf in clothing of a Sheep
                      The Tortoise and the Hare
Ugly Ducklings, Beanstalk boys
                    with Golden Goose to snare

If but one there could be true 
                                  in manifested fate
 “Twas not Beauty killed the Beast!
 “Twas love
                                The Beast was hate