Tuesday, July 2, 2024

That face that owns me April 2012

 


She gets mad each time

I unfriend her on social media,

and I'm too scared to explain why.

Morning and night,

night and morning,

 I keep seeing her face on my smart phone,

 pictures she send to me via text,

or on social media,

her deep gaze swallowing me whole

each time I turn on my computer.

I am drowning in those eyes,

 yet unable to sink or swim,

 a lost soul without lifeboat or life jacket,

the best I can do to keep afloat

 is to close my eyes and pretend

 this is not happening,

only when I open my eyes again

 all I see is her face,

and can't explain the ache it causes me

how little control where I am

and what I am doing,

so, I shut off the spigot,

stop the flow of photos

that I am chin deep in already

 unable to explain to her why.




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