It is simply this
Your eyes your eyes
Are like two coffees
Two espressos sitting in
White white porcelain cups
One caffeinated winking at
Me across the room
Asking for my patience
While the other one
Decaffeinated at the end
Of the night buried under
Blanket asking me to
Come and sip and
Taste before my sleep
Change is never easy
It is always confronting
Just ask the tree
That loses its leaves
If it misses summer
On its way to
Winter and I think
That you will hear
It sigh saying don’t
Miss things on your
Way to other things
You know when you
Open that first window
On a spring day
And the breeze blows
In and your home
Is suddenly filled with
Freshness and crisp chill
And you stand there
Sighing smelling and shivering
Closing your cardigan and
Wrapping your arms across
Your chest yeah yeah
You’re like that just
Like that to me
Just tell me why
Don’t hide behind ignorance
Please don’t hide behind
Veiled innocence when you
Know why you did
And please don’t apologize
Please don’t ask forgiveness
Because what you did
Was not a mistake
You chose your answer
To your own question
If you won’t say
Why at least say
What what your question
Was that you answered
That will give me
The why you did
Oh when it starts
Two wholly new things
Recognizable yet usually different
You’re this I’m not
How curious is that
You look the same
As me but different
You’re not a mirror
Yet I see myself
In you or parts
Of me in you
Or parts of me
That I am missing
And want so desperately
So I say things
That you enjoy hearing
That keeps you close
Like those lines thrown
To boats to tie
Them to the shore
This is what it’s
Like when relationships start
