The Hidden Picture. Poem by Sandra Kavanagh Josefsson

The hidden picture.

There once was a man so handsome
that wherever he did go,
everyone would admire him
and tell him so.

He once was kind and caring,
but suddenly that changed.
A gift of a picture turned him
slightly deranged.

For he always wanted to be young and beautiful,
To always stay that way.
He did not want to wrinkle or age away.

So every nasty thing he did,
did not affect him,
But the man in the picture become uglier.
It showed all the sin.

A young lady fell in love with him
And he with her.
But soon he lost interest
And she became a blurr.

And everytime he did wrong,
the man in the picture became strong,
Until he could not live with himself anymore,
And stabbed himself and died on the floor.

When the servants came the next day,
They saw to their dismay
not the young Dorian Gray,
But a very old man of grey.

Based on Oscar Wildes book: The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Verse: Sandra Kavanagh (c) .