2.What is Beauty?
*Will I be pretty?
Will I be wanted? Worthy?
Will I be pretty?* Katie Makkai "Pretty"

The question, pretty,
With rouge painted lips, glossy
Of porcelain masks

Of eyes aflutter
Lined in shimmering silver
Dull under plastic

A figure in white,
skeletal thin and starved,
Cut trim and slender

Displayed, pretty,
Worthy of full attention,
But unreal, unseen,

A monstrosity,
Carved from reality,
Ourselves are unseen

There is no pretty,
only starlight reflected,
Of beauty within

And warped lenses
hiding sharp diamonds of wit,
cutting and shining

and imperfection,
a figure honed from working,
expressing the truth

Hiding behind words,
A beauty resides within,
waiting for the truth

You will be pretty,
But will you be beautiful?
You won’t be pretty,

But you will never,
If reality so dares,
be merely pretty,