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THE PRISM
She was concerned about her beauty
She was never self-absorbed or vain
but she came home in tears
when another girl called her plain.
Her parents were concerned
they wanted her to understand
so immediately they found a prism
and placed it in her hands..
“The girl who said that was probably unhappy.” They said
Please don’t listen to her…
We have never thought you plain.”
“but even if you were
It’s not how we look on the outside…
you’ll find one day…by most accounts
it’s what’s inside our brain
our heart and what’s inside our soul that counts.”
They held her hands up to the sun
“The way the light bounces off you,” they said
“isn’t important at all.
It’s how the light shines through you
that people will recall.”
“We think you are beautiful!”
Mom said smiling as she touched her daughter’s chin
“But what makes you truly beautiful
is what shines out of you…not in.”
She wears that prism as a necklace today
to remember where beauty comes from…
and to remind herself of the beautiful little girl she was…
and of the beauty she’s become.
