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On beauty

Never a loss.

Richard Partridge

Dec 5, 2022

Beauty is not just a pretty face,
a cliché, object nor a place.
Beauty is a depression, of sorts,
a yearning or absence, never a loss.

Something we hopelessly ache to hold,
to gather-in, stash or covetously horde.
Yet knowingly never possess or own,
unable to touch, impossible to form.