Beauty

A poem about the truth of what beauty really is.

I am beauty.
I walk among you like a plague,
giving the best of hope,
ruining the strongest of dreams.
I give life where death reigns.
I can kill what lives in the heart.
Look at me and perish.
I am true only to those who seek perfection.
A memory for the knowledgeable.
A thought for the young.
Remember me.