I DON'T care whether I am beautiful to you              You other women.
     Nothing of me that you see is my own;
     A man balances, bone unto bone
     Balances, everything thrown
             In the scale, you other women.
 
     You may look and say to yourselves, I do
             Not show like the rest.
     My face may not please you, nor my stature¹; yet
        if you knew
     How happy I am, how my heart in the wind rings
        true
     Like a bell that is chiming, each stroke as a stroke
        falls due,
             You other women:
 
     You would draw your mirror towards you, you
        would wish
             To be different.
     There's the beauty you cannot see, myself and
        him
     Balanced in glorious equilibrium²,
     The swinging beauty of equilibrium,
             You other women.
 
     There's this other beauty, the way of the stars
             You straggling women.
     If you knew how I swerve³ in peace, in the equi-
        poise⁴
     With the man, if you knew how my flesh enjoys
     The swinging

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