Beauty Is

Beauty is

as beauty does,

so much more than just the hours 

spent tête à tête before the mirror

making up and curling hair

all the while wondering 

who might be the fairest of the fair.

 

Beauty is

as beauty does,

a kind smile flashed to a stranger,

the tintinnabultation of her laughter, 

the soft kiss on the bruised knee of a child

who looks at her forever after

like she’s the beginning and end of miracles.

 

Beauty is

as beauty does,

the heart and the hope

she offers up time and again,

waiting for a love who sees

her skin is made of glass

and it is not only her feet that dance.

 

Beauty is

as beauty does,

as beauty does unto others,

as beauty does unto itself.

What beauty does unto the world

defines beauty, 

breaks the mold.