Aching Beauty

2018-06-01

What to do with beauty?
or joy, for that matter—
in the midst of tragedy,
of violence, of cruelty?
What do we do with the living?
Give each their due.
Do not lose ourselves in any of it,
but find ourselves anew.
Where there is beauty,
amplify it.
Where beauty is hidden,
reveal it.
Where beauty is ruined,
restore it.
Where beauty is absent,
create it.
This will be our gift to our aching world.