Something beautiful

There is a beauty in seeing smiles

a kind of beauty which kisses from a distance, like

walking in the rain or feeling the first rays of a sunrise

It’s how this smile

this distant kiss

it’s how it reaches in

and caresses your soul

till all that is left to do

is reach out

and link

one little finger of imagination to a wisp of their soul

and see how it is all so beautiful

The lesson to learn

is how to be something other

than a stationary artefact of life

is how to live life with a smile

and how this smile must be a natural smile

not something concocted to fit, to beguile, to coerce

This smile must belong

it must reach up from your soul

and travel along the very core of your being

until it bursts upon your face

a beacon to shine

and so illuminate in others

how it feels to have this smile within you

this light

this spirit of warmth

and so perhaps

as one candle to another

it will pass along the invisible cord of humanity

and so grow into something beautiful