Appreciating Beauty

I have known beauty beyond the canvas

Where sadness taints each brushstroke

I was born witness to a world

Where love defies the given odds

Where a whispered word begs the skies

To quiver with rain, where the thunderstorm

Plays her music, and the fire burns within

I have you to thank for this

I have known truth beyond what's spoken

Where temperance dissuades the courageous

I have torn pages from a book

Whose only scripture is a verse

Whose only meaning sleeps unheard

But screams against the pain, where the wonders born

Slay adversaries, and the feeling breaches skin

I have you to thank for this

I have tasted love within the plain

Where all may seem the same

I have shorn the worst in me

Where what remains to be seen

Where what dreams may come, come sweetly

To this place within the soul, where a lover born

States unequivocally, that life is defined by beauty

I have you to thank for this

I have lived beyond the corporeal

Where your touch is all that I feel

I have torn my bones from flesh

Where all that I have left is right

Where all that I am blessed with

Is the sight, where these dark skies of mine

Stay their course, and I ask no more

No less, than your soul upon the floor, undressed

I have you, your essence, the taste

On your lips

I have the world, to thank for this

And your beauty, to set me mute

For no words could express

Bliss, save this, I have you to love

All of you to thank

For this.