If Love Were Really Blind

[ellz483]

Like paper lanterns in the sky
Shining against the dark of night,
So glow your eyes in the pale moonlight---
Wide and wise and tinged with melancholy.

Your lashes hang low like branches heavy with sweet peaches
And I reach my fingers out to tug them
As I swim in the pools of those green irises.

I try to walk away, to disengage from your gaze,
But I know they will haunt me, ever watching---
Fixed on and pricking the back of my neck, 
But I let them simmer. 

Their weight burns on my shoulders until I cannot bear it anymore
Then finally, I tremble as I turn to meet them with my own
Tear-soaked eyes.

Because I know they know
Without seeing, but rather by groping for the parts of my soul
I keep buried deep in that battle-worn chest that beats
Somewhere just south of my chest. 

Because I'm scared of surrender,
And the white flag I would once have waved
Is yellowed and tattered with age and experience.

Because I'm not sure how to---
Let go. 


But most of all
Because I know your eyes
        will peer into mine
              and turn my stony heart into mush
                  and render me helplessly in love.