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DON'T YOU KNOW

Don't you know,
    . . . You are beautiful
A living, breathing, wonder
    . . . Hidden, secret, waiting to be
                discovered
There is more to beauty
    . . . Than what meets the eye
For true beauty
    . . . Isn't as easily defined
It is something you are born with
    . . . Not something you can teach
It is hidden within
    . . . Where time cannot reach
It gets better with age
    . . . And it never grows old
It is more valuable than gold
    . . . But cannot be bought or sold
It is seen in eyes that dance
    . . . A heart that will risk a chance
A spirit robed in elegance
    . . . And a life filled with romance
It is heard in the kindest of words
    . . . Envisioned in the sweetest of
                dreams
Cloaked in a quiet confidence
    . . . A merciful soul that redeems
It resides in a fractal heart that loves
    . . . Far more than it is capable of
Bringing love to the unloved
   . . . Dispensing a mercy from above
      . . . Through a calm and healing touch
It is a free spirit
    . . . That lives to love
        . . . And loves the life it lives
Measured not in what it receives
    . . . But in what it gives
It lives with a passion
    . . . To forgive and forget
Finding love in all things
    . . . Including the things it hasn't seen
                yet
It believes all things
    . . . Casts out all fear
An unwavering trust
    . . . With the courage to persevere
It is bounded by a love
   . . . That will not let go
       . . . THAT WILL NEVER LET GO!
Don't you know
    . . . You are beautiful
A living, breathing, wonder
    . . . Hidden, secret, waiting to be
                discovered
Don't you know? . . . .
          . . . . . That you are beautiful to me!
©steve-