Do Man’s eyes distort that which he wishes to see?
Can the mind of earthly man perceive true beauty?

For to one the budding rose of a thorny bush
may prick the gentle heart with its askew beauty.

The blushing sun over the far horizon borne
can also bathe waking lands and renew beauty.

Simply because man has dominated this earth
does not imply that beasts do not value beauty.

A hawk, its wings spread wide across the open sky,
flows through cloudy oceans and calls that, too, beauty.

Or the tireless ant, with its grand mountains of loam,
labors endlessly so as to pursue beauty.

And who is to state that beings under the wave
do not breathe in and out that vast blue beauty?

A lie it would be to declare man sole holder
of loveliness—for such claims would undo beauty.

For man must put aside his superior view
and gaze within and without, and into beauty.

But who am I but Jeryhn, a homely human
of twenty, to address such a Lady as you, Beauty?

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