Remember Beauty

9/11/09

Remember beauty, it shall last

Through all the withering of time.

Outward beauty is a mask

To please the senses and the eye,

Yet those with an awakened heart

See beauty in a mote of dust

And nowhere turn but she is there,

Of such a radiance the eye

Bereft of inner sight is blind.

Only the vision in the heart

Can truly see behind the veil

The youth that leaps in aged limbs,

The perfect form of the infirm,

The peace that lives in troubled souls,

The joy that made this stumbling world,

The inhabitant for whom we seek

Who lives in us unseen, unfelt

And carries us to heaven's heights.