KAITLYN HOLLOWAY: Beauty, 3rd high school
3rd place, High School Division, Albany Museum of Art essay contest
By Kaitlyn Holloway
Terrell Academy
Beauty
A word we crave
An integral part of Society
Without it, we are nothing
In the eyes of everyone else
We long to achieve
Perfection
An unattainable desire,
The human mind can’t help but yearn for
We have our essentials tools
That can make us new
And so we use them to become
Someone else
Someone not ourselves
We wear our newfound beauty
Like a mask
Hiding who we are
Who we have become
We are too scared to see
Inside of ourselves
To see
The monsters we are
And so we paint over
What we can
The focal point of reality
Turns obfuscate,
A mere distraction of the task at hand
The task
To be imperfectly perfect
And so
The chaos of the outside world blurs
Around the vanity
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