Hidden Beauty

Deep within the eyes
of a girl I know,

I see a smoldering
rooted within hidden

forges; begging, wanting and
yearning, longing, hungering,

needing, lusting, desiring,
fighting, requiring, being,

creating raging holocausts that
burn; passionate upon the altar

of Beauty, lasting into the night;
guiding the lost to her eternal

brilliance, so that they might see that which they
never knew they missed; something unknown; lost; found;

Oh Beauty, spread your wings and take flight upon
the breath of Creation and bring your light down

amongst the lost and weary so that they too might
become that which moves the spirit to greater heights;

a wildfire, spreading outward, engulfing a
world lost in its own blind ignorance, waiting

for the spark that will ignite a smoldering Renaissance
that lies waiting deep within the eyes of a girl I know.