I wrote this when I was in an arrangement. I am 60ish and she was 30ish. I wrote this for her when she felt decidedly un-beautiful. She got in some serious trouble with drinking and driving. Thankfully nobody was hurt. Her color mug shot was shown on a local news media internet outlet and then on the local TV news. She looked as bad as you would expect in a jail orange jumpsuit in the early morning hours under the harshest possible light.
She needed to be reminded how beautiful she is.
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Imagine - I am walking along when I encounter half a dozen eminent philosophers. They are 'debating' a topic, yet it doesn't seem like a debate because they are all in agreement. The topic is whether a woman could be perfectly beautiful? Could perfect beauty be embodied by a living woman? They all agree that it could not.
As I'm walking by I hear one of these 'wise men' guffaw and proclaim without equivocation that "a woman may be very beautiful, very stunning, but of course she cannot be perfectly beautiful. It is not possible!"
I stop to listen for a bit, to take in this normally argumentative group. One of them notices me listening just as the hint of an amused smile begins to show on my face. The smile grows as they all turn to look at me. Clearly, my evident amusement displeases them. One of them loudly challenges me: "What's so amusing young man?"
***A brief aside at this point about him calling me "young man" - 1st, I'm telling ya, these philosophers were really old. 2nd, hell, it's my daydream. 3rd, I don't feel old.) ***
I reply "Well, the thing is, all of you are wrong." My smile breaks into a grin. They glower at me and I explain: "Perfect beauty cannot be captured in a picture or a painting or a photograph. It cannot be adequately described by words or contained by a song or music or work of art. It cannot be seen or experienced by just one of our senses or even by several in combination. It is not static or frozen at a point in time."
"Yet perfect beauty can be felt, it can be experienced. It exists. Perfect beauty is embodied by a living breathing woman who can be touched. I have touched her. More exciting, she has touched me. I have been studying her beauty for three years and my discovery of its depth continues. My surprise over its depth continues."
"You need to find your way inside me to understand, to share what I experience. I watch her move in public and feel how she infuses a room. Her very presence adding a brilliance, a sparkle that wasn't there before. As if she casts a beautiful light on everything she illuminates with her gaze, with her presence."
"She moves through the room fluidly, gracefully, an exquisite wave. She doesn't draw your attention with the stiff, stilted strut of some done up model on a fashion runway. Instead she captures your eyes with the naturalness of her movement like a gazelle effortlessly moving through her element. Dreamlike, yet real."
"In private, experience me draw close to her. I bury my face in her glorious hair, discover her ear, and discover that sweet transition between the skin of her neck and her hair. Hair with a will of its own. Inhale the mix of skin and hair. I lightly nuzzle that perfect part of her neck and she reacts to my soft touch and this is essential to her beauty, this is key, this is the perfection of her beauty, the perfection of any beauty - perfect beauty is living beauty. It feels and experiences and is felt and touched and feels and touches. Perfect beauty must be living beauty."
"Experience me as I kiss the small hollow of her neck below her chin, that delicate vulnerable place. It focuses me on a realization. This perfect beauty has a vulnerability that hides behind a protective exterior, her 'skin' to fend off all the things she needs to keep at arm's length - and they are many and they are only too real."
But as I explore her neck I begin to feel, to realize, the softness of her vulnerability. A rough tough creampuff. Never has a vulnerability been so real, so soft, so felt, and so perfectly beautiful. When she wears her protective shell it is not a flaw. It creates anticipation. Creates a lightness of being when she lets it fall away for me, heart beat visible in her neck and chest, soft, exposed, choosing to be vulnerable, trusting and open. Touchable. Reachable. Real."
"Feel the smoothness of her upper chest, that area that glows with a warm blush when she has been satisfied, across to her shoulders and upper arms. Beneath her flawless delicate skin you can feel the bone and muscle, her vibrant athleticism."