Tuesday, January 3, 2023

AN EYE FOR BEAUTY

 


She sees the world as a myriad of little paintings…

She sees the beauty…with one restraint…

She is unable to capture that beauty on canvas…

She was not born with the gift to paint.


But she found a way to catch that beauty

a technique all her own…

Her eyes search the world for paintings

she captures on her camera phone.


She happily shares her photos

some…she keeps framed upon a shelf…

and people marvel at their beauty…

even wonder if she painted them herself.


The beauty people see in her photos

has caused her thinking to shift…

How it’s not the ability to paint the beauty…

but to see it…that is her gift.


To see the beauty all around her…

to know that beauty never ends…

to be able to capture that beauty

and  share it with family and friends 


As she takes pictures of sunsets, of the flowers,

of the butterflies and the bees…

She no longer regrets not being able to capture on canvas 

the beauty that she sees 


She no longer regrets not being able to paint…

She no longer wonders why…

For she knows the gift was never in her hands…

It was always in her eyes.


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