It's hard not to compare that first look in her eyes, to something only described as a miracle. Sunsets, sunrises, shooting stars, and eclipses, so universal yet unequal.
To make any effort to be acknowledged, to prove ones existence becomes a weighted endeavor.
To continue from there, has been life.
We often cheapen what love is, thanks in part to so many things.
The silver screen, television, literature, and life.
Often being jaded once, is being jaded forever, and being unable to feel what we should be so fortunate to experience.
To feel love, to be in love, to actually BE love.
This is the sole ingredient of which her eyes are made of.
The eyes, the windows of the soul and mind.
Can teach one all they need to know in a matter of moments, unbeknown to either party.
Much like a download of emotion, thought, and sentiment, that cannot be opened as quickly.
From all that is taken, one cannot comprehend, or understand that foundation, without building upon it.
Leaving such an act all to itself, makes it pass thoughtfully but inevitably away.
So to allow what the eyes disclose, to become the mouth and heart's discussion, begins the continuation, of the addition, to the foundation.
It takes not a day, or a week, or a month or a year. For these things can not be timed.
Until at last, that which has been built up from foundation, has become furnished with all that one learned through the one glance through the windows of her soul.
The fears, the emotions, the trials and tribulations, everything with each passing glance becoming not just information.
But a case against the on-looker's heart.
One it will surely lose, resulting in him being found guilty of love.
All of this internally never seeking justification or acknowledgment externally.
For while the trial of his heart takes place, true life continues.
Both parties continue on with the lives they make for themselves.
Then one moment, one thought, one rogue emotion.
Brings his life crashing down, because it will all be a lie, all that he tries to know and believe.
Never, coincide with what he saw that day he looked in her eyes.
He will spend days after weeks after months attempting to turn back the clock to go abck to a time when he didn't have to realize what can no longer be repressed.
He will fail, time and time again.
He will face the questions that bring humanity to it's knees, those of confrontation, or dismissal.
Much like in many situations, he will be unable to choose either.
Leaving him to mourn love.
Not because a love will die, but because he can never let love live.
All because of a look in her eyes,
One silly little look.
His life will never be the same.
I just read this again. I read it out loud to MyKelle so she could hear it, and received it in an entirely different way. I can almost see a split in the center of the poem - it seems to be an idea of love as a whole, encompassing all who feel, experience, see and don't feel experience and see it. Then it's as though the lens of the poem zooms in to a tiny moment which began the original idea of love.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I forgot to say that I think the poem is great... and also grand.
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