What Is Beauty Poem by Tsegaye Hailesilassie

What the hell is beauty
That it should exalt itself so high;
“Truth is beauty and beauty is truth’
What a ‘truth ’and what ‘a lie’

What a misfortune and what a loss
When a beautiful thing such as ‘beauty’
In this world causes such a mess

You are going to tell me
That beauty is God;
And God is beauty
But in whom is then the ‘ugly’

I know my God will not give such a thing
Not such a sting;
No! He wouldn’t give it
At least not the way we take it.