Beauty and Love

He falls

I am too late

I tell him anyway

With rain and tears

Hand in hand

Making me stronger

At least strong enough

To tell him the words he has

Waited forever to hear

Maybe because it is my last chance

Or my first

He is no longer a beast

He hasn▓t been that way

Since I saw him

Feed birds

Blue ones

Red ones

Yellow ones

With joy in his eyes

But when did I love him?

What is love?

I don▓t know that

But I do know I love him

And he loves me back

And that▓s enough

And should have always been enough

Because now he▓s gone

And I love him

I never knew what I had

Until it was lost

Blue lights

Red lights

Yellow lights

Lift him up

And I wonder if heaven

Wants all of him

Like I do

Before my eyes

His paws change

To hands

And what was once Beast

Is beautiful

Light disappears

Sets him down before me

A man I don▓t know

Alive

Glorious, but curiously so

He stands up

And looks at me

With a handsome face

But he is not mine

Only his eyes

Blue

I know

I love

Because they are his

And I find my Beast in their depths

I brush a golden brown hair

Back from his eyes

Hoping

Wondering

In this miracle

He is alive