Beauty

To you, beauty is
an hourglass and porcelain
straight lines and curves
sharp edged jaws and noses
muscles and veins
people in magazines.

To me, beauty is
an hourglass and porcelain
musty pages and curved words
breezes that stretch to the sky and
a flightless body with a flighty mind.
A headlong longing for something more.

To you, beauty is
an hourglass and porcelain
scrabbled graphite and ink
faces and places
imagination and creation
a world of time lost to easel and colour.