breath

while all the colors of the fall

has everybody else enthralled

your beauty has me mesmerized

and all else is a compromise

 

for in the beauty you possess

i find that i am unimpressed

with anything else which i see

and all eternity agrees

 

the seat that is on beauty’s throne

is occupied by you alone

where visions of your loveliness

crowns you the goddess of my breath

 

which disappears when you are near

you turn my breath into a tear

that’s shed in awe of sheer delight

evaporating to the heights

 

of words which wrap around my heart

describing you’s the only art

worth creating for you’re truly

the encompassment of beauty

 

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