Is Beauty Truth or What – II

a poem by Ramesh T A

Dress makes the man but not the man himself in reality!
So, beauty is just a representative of a business company!
What is beauty to one is not the same for others too;
Truly, beauty lies only in the eye of the beholder!

How much importance man attaches to beauty here!
Beauty attracts and deceives perpetuating men’s affairs!
Beauty only loses but love lasts in the life of the world!
So, one can be a slave of love but not a slave of beauty.

Beauty without love is a serpent like beauty unreliable
And is much more dangerous than a common beauty.
Beauty without love is also a beauty without truth;
Such serpentine beauty surely coils round and swallows!

Beauty of Art may be a joy forever to men;
But beauty of Nature forever lives in mind
And gives blessed mood recollected in peace!

Beauty of Art may be a frozen one;
Beauty of a Woman is a losing one;
But beauty of Nature is a lasting one!

Beauty of Nature truly never dies in the world,
A live legacy for all to witness and appreciate!