Sees through the glorious light,

Every part of beauty etches the soul,

Needs beauty to help become whole.

The ache and longing continue,

Constant in the heart sees beauty everywhere,

Instead of an ugly stare.

Clandestine love of a young heart,

Needing and yearning beauty’s path to cross,

Without it, the heart suffers loss.

Needs beauty to comfort the tired soul,

Living in a world that doesn’t care,

Crying and alone in despair.

Like two ships sailing different ways,

The path and beauty have been going,

Not one or the other knowing.

The fates say they have other things in store,

It is time to let go,

Like a stubborn child tells them NO!

So hard to let go of beauty,

It is in the heart from first to last,

It does not remind of the dark and wicked past.

Knowing there is much light ahead,

Still holds to beauty tightly,