FADING BEAUTY

soon you will realize
what beauty lies in fading

the comfort of turning off
TV

the relief of that silence you get
when a window and a door are closed

the satisfaction that we sometimes get
when we we are abandoned

the honor we feel when we zip
our mouth

the final triumph we finally feel
when the surrender becomes unconditional

the belief we entertain when we are told
that we are pretty when we know we aren't

the conviction we all talk about
when we all put our tongues in cheek

our honesty rewarded when we sleep soundly
on the floor because there is nothing more to
feel on the bed

there is more that meets the eye
when we discard the common sight

soon you will realize
that there is nothing to everything that we want

we unload
what for years we have stored as
exclusively ours.