Fleeting Beauty
Pastel Pencil on Pastelmat Paper
40 cm x 30 cm
2024
What Beauty Asks
Why can’t I gaze
?for more than a moment
I don’t want to hold you,
not even in memory—
?but still I retain?
those merciless sunsets
?and old faded loves
All you ask?is that I bear witness—?
gentle in your violence
cruel in your grace
Sometimes you’re a window
?Now you’re a mirror—
I don’t want to look
Ashamed
?I turn my face away