Beautiful Is a Verb

by The Night Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Beautiful is not what light does to your face. It is what you do with light: carry it into hard rooms, hold it over another's fear, leave some burning when you go. Yes, I know your eyes. I also know the courage that keeps them open. Beauty is not a mirror. It is a verb you live.
57 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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