Member Poem

A request far from simple:
Allow me to look into your eyes
To learn you from their shape, size, color
To be enchanted by their mystery
Her response, a demure "yes"
And I fixed my gaze upon her
Initially, her eyes a simple hazel
Then, like the turning of a kaleidoscope
They became pools of deepest green
And the turning continued
Grey to brownish hue to golden
A magic I’d never seen
Spellbound, I continued my observation
The golden became a walk through falling leaves of autumn
The rustle, that unique song of tranquility
The grey became winter with flecks of snow
A Rockwell scene of horse drawn sleighs
The deep green brought spring back to my heart
The renewing flourish after nature’s rest
Then hazel became as summer before me
The lazy, hazy warm days, basking in the sun
Had they been my only visions
Trapped in these moments of her eyes
I would have seen a thousand heavens
But her eyes were not done with me
For as the seasons had passed
I saw the heavens expanding
Her ocular enigma taking me further
Stars, planets, a dance of infinite celestial light
Past galaxies and universes to a place
I conceived as darkness, nothingness
But, in reality, there is no darkness
I blinked at a flash of light so brilliant
For a moment I could not see
And as the gleam faded
I found myself
Still staring into her eyes
Mesmerized by how I had been taken
Through season and time and existence
And found myself back where I started:
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