Since I am in a haiku mood, I thought I would write a cycle called “What is beauty.” It took me a while to write this, and since it is late, I ask that you grant me a reprieve for anything you find particularly egregious. Thanks for reading.
What is Beauty?
Is it a social construct
or open for change?
Beauty is not on
the outside but within you.
Embrace what’s inside.
It is not defined
by someone else from outside
it’s up for debate.
Beautiful is not
new or pretty or showy
it is heart and mind
Beauty is thinking
It is moving to action
love epitomized
It is in small things
like roses, smiles, and hugs; moments.
little ideas
Big dreams, successes,
failures, and in between, all
can be beautiful.
I tell you all this:
If you think that you’re ugly
you are wildly wrong.
You are beautiful
Just as everyone else is.
Embrace confidence.
Find someone who loves
you for who you really are.
Not for an ideal.
When you find people
that you want to spend moments
with; make memories.
You will then see what
beauty truly is, and that
is no lie; truly.
Beauty is no joke.
It is not a thing messed with.
Beauty is our dream.
We desire beauty
like milk, keeping us awake
at night, pushing us.
So we go on; restless
wanderers in faithless chase
after an ideal.
Beauty lies within
the sacrifice of a Dad
who sent baby Boy
To die hard for us,
a lamb to the slaughterhouse
all for salvation.
That is the beauty
we seek. A life with the Son
who came to save US.
Young Carpenter, hung
on a wooden stake for me.
Because of His love.
So I sit in my
ineptitude; pondering
the grace that abounds.
This is beauty also.
The love of a father, too
great to comprehend.
I guess beauty lies
in all things, big and small; we
just have to find it.
The Musings of a College Kid 