Some kiss with their eyes closed
Is attraction looks or deeds?
Is it one or both the heart needs?
Mannerisms enhance
The snare of romance
A virtuous act
May reinforce a lovers pact
But can deeds alone
Procure a love full grown?
From Cyrano de Bergerac
To Notre Dame's hunchback
Though deformed
Souls perhaps better informed
To physical beauty they were drawn
A gift inborn
Needing no virtuous skill
No inner resource or act of will
Mirrored in countless books
The conclusion to which this leads
Is we judge others by their looks
But would have ourselves judged by deeds
Henry Normal | 
