-william bougereau

BE BEAUTIFUL 

Be beautiful. Take the time to tell yourself that it isn’t vain to notice you are unique.

 

Every band of light wrapped in your dark hair flows like mothers milk, enveloping your face, neck, wrists and trickles down to my life’s fascination your perfect little toes.

Each one picked like flowers from the Virgin Mary’s garden.

 

You are everything I ever wanted to be. You are perfection.

 

Your voice breaks the silence with each utterance drenched and heavy with the importance of life. As I watch you form each thought and tell your brain to search for just the right word my heart skips a beat, awash in the significance that each moment is wholly and completely new.

It is new to the world and to creation because it is you who are speaking it for the first time. Using that brand new to this earth, blessedly, beautiful voice and body no one in the entire world before or after except for me, right here, right now has heard or will hear again.

Not for the first time.

 

You are power and substance doll, you are promise and hope angel, and never forget that at one moment you held all the beauty of the virgin mother within you. Her child.

 

Own your blessings with honest humility and be beautiful like God made you.

Teach the world to be gentle and show it honest intentions.

True beauty of body, mind and spirit is the most sincere of honors.

To the memory of this mother who also knew purity when she saw you for the first time and to the one who had the beautiful idea to create you.

(c) 2007 Crystal Martinez