A Beauty Everlasting Poem by Esther Hadassah Sendeza

I want not, to be more beautiful than jewels,
For jewels can be lost or stolen.
I want not, to be more beautiful than the springs
For a vast mass dries up in the sun.

I want not, to be more beautiful than the flowers,
For flowers as we know, fade away.
I want not, to be more beautiful than the sunset,
For eventually it turns into darkness, does it not?

Instead I want my beauty to come pouring from the heart,
For it is forever and it overflows from within.
A beauty that emerges from the soul,
Into the universe, into our world.

So let me not be more beautiful than the stars,
For even those come out only at night.