Where Beauty Rests

Safeguard your beauty,
not in the mask you wear,
nor in the mirror's gaze
that strips it bare.

Do not entrust it
to glass or gloss,
where time will etch
its silent loss.

Safeguard it, love,
in the eyes of your beloved,
for only there
does beauty bloom
unmoved,
unproved,
but true.

Only there
does beauty last,
and only there
does it pass,
does it pass,
into forever.