We say: don't change
I love you just the way
you are.

And then the other changes.
We say: you're not the one you were!
What a dilemma.

We marry beauty
then find ugliness comes with it
and we fail to stay

To see through the dilemma, that is,
that which involves two assumptions;
Asking -- What are these two? Are they:

Truth is truth and doesn't change; and
Revelation once given never changes?
Is Art, then, what we make of this dilemma?

Then beauty points, gently these women --
"Rest into yourself" says Delia;
"When we find beauty we forget everything else," says Laurel.

And Susan (after her day of rigging):
"Perhaps beauty, instead of found out there,
Is our response to what is there."
Yes - now to improvise.

Forget assumptions! Don't make two; don't make one!
Change with every encounter; let your self be
What is changing. This is the response we long for,

The chance to be human in our returning nature,
Restoratively walking in the breeze,
Becoming the face of beauty!

(Bill Halpin, 11May00)