Beauty Inside

Through birth, adolescents, and then through youth The shapes and colors all remain so new The shine adheres without dissipating No rust, nor mar, perfection not fading A house but built the day before No cobwebs cling, no warped squeaky floors All plumbing flows freely, no clogs in sight All wiring neat and works just right No chips in the paint No brown withered weeds All who look will love the beauty they see As all things age, as entropy takes hold People too, inevitably grow old Our plumbing leaks Our paint gets chipped We try our best to keep all fixed and fit To hide the signs Of a life well lived For people who love beauty Ugliness is hard to forgive Limitations, weakness, cause us to feel ashamed When truly, it's our looks that are vain So please, think again before judging looks For that beat up old building Hides the beauty age took Inside cracked windows, if we care to peer We'd see strong bones not fancy veneers And a home that holds sweet memories of love And years doing good, we forget to think of For youth surely is gorgeous, shiny, and new But no one yet lived here to know what you've been through The emptiness of before will now be filled with pictures on walls And tears in bedrooms, laughter in the halls So while time decays to the world outside It gets soaked into our hearts,Putting that beauty inside.