beauty – Page 3 – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

Empty Beauty

Physical beauty
That lacks depth internally
Emptiest of gifts

Remember the truth about beauty:

Beautiful actions have deep power

Imagine if
We obsessed
Over beauty
With the
Same energy
We invest
Into rage

In these days

Where ugliness is glorified

There are moments of beauty

Which make my soul sing

Awakened by

Voices of early risers

Small children

With big voices

So much

Personality

They occupy

Far more space

Than their bodies

Would belie

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At times it’s sought out

Others, it’s served up for us

Beauty’s worth finding

Like something
Jane Austen would’ve wrote,

Dancing around edges,
Flickering, flirting, motion,
Seducing me, drawing me
Closer than I should;

Then I would dare if I were
Rational. But that mind
Sleeps on the edge of
Where darkness meets
Light.