T.

You possess a  beauty
uncommon to most
it radiates from
within to without.
It goes beyond any
surface pleasure
and truly there can be
no greater treasure.

And there's your fragile frame
which you feel surely
makes us laugh but only
endears you to us.
And when you are smiling
fairy sparkle lights
sprinkle across your face
with childish delights. 

Naturally you are
only natural
oh, those poor souls who can't
appreciate that.
They cannot understand
one so free as you,
but I'm the richer one
simply because I do.

Barbara L. Steinberg
Fairfax, Virginia
April 19, 1974