Lost and Found
I find beauty
in staying up until sunrise
Beauty
In the kind of sleep deprivation,
where you are not deprived of anything at all,
but simply provided with the worlds slow seconds for an hour longer.
I find beauty
In the split seconds of silence
when your thoughts are muted
but you realize how loud they really are.
I find beauty
In the moments that your brain says
"keep going"
and
"I'm right here with you"
when last night,
it told you
"stop"
and
"you're alone."
I find beauty
in the cigarettes that are passed
and the words that are passed with them.
I find beauty
In the way you catch people falling in love,
all by how they stare in admiration,
at someone who has no idea of their lingering eyes.
I find beauty,
In the way that the same things that give us a world of hurt,
things like songs, words, people, and memories
are the same things that give us a world of happiness.
Beautiful things catch us off guard all of the time.
They find us when we aren't looking.
I find beauty...
or rather...
beauty finds me.
-C.L.