September Post: A Toast to Beauty

A Toast to Beauty

We were all

young then

and

looking fine, looking

so fine

and

aware of that,

almost mad

with

the knowledge of

so much

beauty

all around us

but not

quite

certain either if

it would

last

or how long.

Even then

getting

our first sense

of how

temporary

all that fine,

young, sexy

beauty

was and how

quickly gone

(but

only in retrospect

would we

realize

just how evanescent

it all

was

except for this

remaining inner

beauty

that still lights

our eyes

when

we talk or

share some

old

photograph or memory.

Here's to

past

beauty and to

present beauty

and

to all beauty

yet to come --

here's

to beauty

going on forever!

© Bob Loomis

09-24-2012