You are beautiful
Though you may never have known it
I do.
When we met, it was as if everyone else became less important
Because you were a lovely, wild satellite
Spinning above me
You look in the mirror and see labels affixed
Ugly, worthless, failure
And I see none.
Sometimes I want to learn to undo
The outcome of those years before I met you
To show who you really are
Minus the words that caused you pain
You are in every way
A creature of the ice and mountains
Your eyes burn into me like warm coal
Your fantastical mind unfolds
And I follow in your every creative wake
If you were earth and clay you’d breathe warm life
If you were a lake you’d have a golden light on your surface
If you were snow, you would fall, in slow motion
Wetting the eyelashes of us
Who look up in wonder
You are those forces of nature
You are color, stained permanent
The white tip of a hawks head, flashing against dipping moon
All these things
Are you