What Use? Poem by Oluseyi Akinbami

What Use?



Exquisiteness is futile when unwrapped with manners
As unsullied luster vanishing bowing to time
As gold in the mouth of a pig
So is beauty where the owner is a fool

Oluseyi Akinbami
Monday, August 16, 2010
Topic(s) of this poem: beauty
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Oluseyi Akinbami

Lagos, Nigeria
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Lagos, Nigeria
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