Beauty in a Pile of Pixels

It's been a long time

Since I could look at a picture of you and think you beautiful

But today I did

In a pile of pictures

there was a pile of pixels that showed you

beautiful

It was the only one in the set

one moment where the old bruises were gone

one moment where the bags under your eyes were not subtly shaded half ringlets under the blue of the windows to your soul

one moment where the past few years never happened and...

poof

Confident

Coquettish

Imperious

Happy

...Beautiful

but only for that instant

and  in a single pile of pixels loosely tied together

that disappear when I turn off the screen