When beauty doesn’t know it is beautiful,
Because beauty wants something more,
Who dares to tell the ignorant
What ignorant beauty is for?
The response will be like the stars
Silent, in silent skies,
Or the sneer on the face of the one who has those beautiful eyes.
The additional, which the beautiful wants,
Adds more to how the beautiful wants
Secretly more beauty.
Everything is sad and needy
Except pure beauty.
When beauty doesn’t know it is beautiful,
It seems more beautiful still,
As when anger burns in fury
But has no fighting will.
“Fight me!” You cry, knowing anger is there.
But anger is far more angry when anger doesn’t care.
When beauty doesn’t know it is beautiful—
Actually, beauty not knowing is always the case;
Beauty isn’t confident, just because it has a beautiful face.
Everything can bring down the beautiful—
We all fear humbling disgrace.
Be careful what you say to the beautiful,
In poetry, or in person.
Less beautiful when it leaves its prison,
The beauty is not a beautiful person,
And wants to be beautiful again, in the prison,
Trapped by its beautiful face and eyes—
You’ve seen the mute stars look down, trapped by an empty sky.
You’ve heard the poet—the big baby—in love with beauty, cry.
Look! The evening lights of the town gleam across the bay—
Each light, a human story; but they have nothing to say.