The Quintessential Beauty

 The Quintessential Beauty, appears in the poetry anthology, The Beautiful Anthology  

(2022: Steven Carr, ed., SweetyCat Press)

The Quintessential Beauty

( to Barbra Streisand)

        

 

So many stars in the sky

So many faces in the night

Home is dark and cold

Home is where I've learned about pain.

It was plain, to me 

When I heard your voice.

Then when I gazed upon your face, of course!

You were the one

To save me at those moments I most needed you.

Your voice spoke to my heart.

Your song kept it from becoming hardened, k

Kept it from dying within me .

No one could replace you my dear.

Every other must be patterned after you.

Your beauty, that perfect nose, those lips, your eyes.

I came close a couple times.

But no one is you, Barbra.

And if I could, love you, I would.

With no goodbyes.

In true love there are no lies.

No one better, did I ever

know. You saved my heart from ruin.

My quintessential savior.

My quintessential Beauty.

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