Mistaken Glances
written by: Justine Engelbrecht
How many thoughts and passions lie behind your eyes.
The same ones that reflect only judgment to any displayed from mine.
I thought your eyes were blue somehow, but when I looked again, they were grey, and then again browner, was it hazel, was it a twinkling of green teasing from within.
I could be completely wrong.
Mistaken glances shouldered against the cover of the occasion.
Stolen thoughts that lie dormant.
Dead in the confines of reality.
Fears of closeness for the lack of the ability to just be less,
or would a smattering of sympathy, or empathetic friendship be more, too unbearable. Would your true self be revealed.
Will you continue to steal a glance under your eyelids, concealing the truth of your internal passion, shadowed by the judgment that sticks like a lie to your faith, a messy glue smudging your existence.
Messing with your perfect beautiful edges.
Can you see me clearly now, or do you care not too, less my soul touches yours, or will your flesh burn under a forbidden touch that is just a figment of your imagination. Could you imagine, do you?
Behind the judgment of your eyes.
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