Beauty

You are beautiful beyond words.
Truly…
beyond words.

The greatest poets over three millennia
have failed to capture the emotion
that I feel in your presence,
though they’ve tried.

Some speak of beauty only in comparison,
like Helen,
whose beauty launched a thousand ships.
But it wasn’t beauty that sent those ships to Troy.
It was jealousy,
honour,
power.
Helen, most beautiful woman of the ancient world,
was just the excuse.

Thus, therefore, ergo…
I have no words
to describe your beauty.

Let me only gaze upon you,
etch your loveliness upon my eyes,
your laughter upon my ears,
the touch of your skin upon my haptic memory.

Let me die in this moment
that I will die at the apex of my joy
and carry it into the great unknown.

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