Beauty Therein

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” Francis Bacon

If I could see a picture painted

Written in a few sparse lines

I’d know an allure most profound

Sprouting from a well-versed mind.

I’d see the beauty therein unsheathed

That mere words create and evoke

I’d feel the power and the vision

That the prose alone would stoke.

The mind’s eye awakens a fierce beauty

In what the naked eye cannot behold

Its inherent worth is greater to our souls

Than the wealth we often seek in gold.