If I Were Beautiful Poem by Katrina Harms

if i were beautiful
i would tell you
what you mean to me

if i were slender and lush
and charming to your eyes
no fear would come between us

and perhaps our glances would meet
brown to blue

but such is the nature of sin
that it relies on the intervention
of that which we call divine
and precious

i know where you are
when i see your shadow pass
silently behind me
scented softly, a rush of
warm movement

you have not seen my sharp glance
but perhaps you would
if i were beautiful
and my love could

move you.