Bright Eyes

 

Still amazed

Knew right away

That day; can’t say I remember

Details; you were far from legal

But like childhood

Only had a feeling of

“This one is different”

Potential to love me

Made your wiry arm muscles bulge

Skin strain. Bright eyes

Engaged all around her

A look that informed

“I’m your equal; you’re not inferior”

 

It’s taken sunlight refracted through

Facets of a unique jewel

Tapping on my eyelids

To wake me. Sole fragment

From my dreamscape dancing

In a dingy world touching the

Pain that put me to sleep in

The first place. I ran after you

Enraged, desperate, insane

“How dare you wake me?!

How dare you?!” Still running.

 

All I want is to go back to sleep!

But like childhood

It’ll never be the same again

So I must go on living,

Awake with the pain

Of caring.

 

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1/31/06