Like lightning’s flash <br />Or a melodies single, quick ending note <br />Art’s true beauty last’s but a minute <br />Then disappears behind a silencing, counseling cloak <br />Of either darkness, or light, or silence <br /> <br />A lights flash, a song, a shadow, ends <br />Sound, whistling are beautiful for a short second <br />Until arts true form lessens, and disappears <br /> <br />The true secret of art is to make something that fades <br />But you know that through the eye’s of the beholder <br />It was a master piece<br /><br />Lucas Lingerfelt<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-is-art-2/