This Arrangement We Have by John Grey

Yours is a loveliness

not just in lips and cheekbones

but in that gentle fundamental
some call the soul

but I refer to as the watch dog

making sure your eyes see the right people,

your hands touch where

the appropriate response awaits

and your heart only falls in places

where it will not be broken.

Yours is a loveliness

for which no explanation is needed

unless you hear it first from me.

 by John Grey