At a glance

So much emotional potential, 

so many feasible words that would settle like dust betwixt us. 

I used to relish beneath the look in your eyes as they penetrated mine. 

Many times, I thought there was a glint of curiosity there, 

and I loved being questioned.

I wished I answered all of your queries sooner, 

though I see that someone elses were so much sweeter. 

So much about a person can change with a mere bat of their lashes. 

I hid my gaze the second I saw you, for I always found you before you could give yours...

I still do.

My eyes mean nothing to you now, which I've accepted, so I still avert them.

I hope her eyes glimmer with the affection that I had always wanted to give,

but just never exactly got around to. 

From the sheepishness of the first,

to the slight acknowledgement in the second,

to nothing to be seen at all.

Eyes being the window to the soul tells me of the 

indifference that you feel toward me now has such deafening residence in you.

In fact, such indifference blinks my tears back aways, 

perhaps I should thank it sometime.

Indifference, the mighty hammer of great decisions

has made up his mind and pounded into me her request of my moving beyond you. 

Golly, but there was once such a saturated admiration in your gaze

for that bitter brevity of a second. 

I swear I could have held your eyes with mine for centuries this way. 

If your arms cradled like your irises,

I don't know how I would have coped. 

And now I need not know because at least for the moment, 

your arms would rather break than give mine any thought.

Part of me still longs for those passed seconds yet.

But the other part knows the reasons that loving you scares me into a paralysis.

But a paralyisis being held by your fleeting glance is enough 

for me to forget how to blink.

Human Dignity + Compassion = Peace.