Good morning, beautiful

The world is in one harmonious accord
that you are its most beautiful creature.

You shimmer and vibrate with beauty.
It is an active principle of your being,
not a passive condition of your existence.

But beauty isn't easy. I tell you this
in case you sometimes feel limited
by attention you did not ask for,

or like you are secretly hiding a volcano
and risk destroying yourself
if you let the beauty out,

or if for one of a million possible reasons
you are made to feel beauty is not you,
but something that happens to you,
is even a punishment for being ugly.

I tell you all this only in case
you need someone else to say it.
If not, ignore my words the same
as you would ignore the lies
against which I set them in opposition.

Let the sunrise show what night knows:
that you and your beauty are indivisible,
need no appreciation or acknowledgement,
occur on no-one else's behalf,
exist for no-one else's benefit,
belong to no-one else but you.