Labial Ocular Viewing Entities
"What do you think?"
I stare longingly at the painting in front of me
Silently, I contemplate the dreams of anonymity written on this canvas
It seems to be, something of antiquity
Though the descriptor says it's a modern piece
"What do you think?"
"It's lovely"
And that is all
It is lovely, was all I could speak, for my words hung dry in my throat
No squeak, arose from my lips past my teeth
"Come, there's more to see"
"No. This one is for me"
I stare longingly into the painting, noticing the finer details
The slight moments where the brush didn't cooperate, the subtle scars across the face
But
I love her all the same.
This woman who I have felt touch my dreams
Stares back at me
The light behind her eyes is all I would ever need
All I could ever think of knowing
Her unending beauty stares back at me smiling
And I stare back crying
Because I know that for as much as I want this love to be
It may not last into enternity
I tell her
"For as long as we both shall be, to you alone will I be yours
For you alone entangle me in your heart strings
So pluck them and play them beautifully"
For the life of me I wonder why she smiles at me
For I am the epitome of broken dreams
Of shattered things, scattered fiends that bind me
I'm crying
While she is still smiling
Why is she still smiling?
"How do you not despise me?"
"Because" she spake
"When I look into your eyes, it's like seeing the horizon, where the land and sky meet"
Her hand out reached, wiping away the tears she said finally
"I will love you, for as long as you love me"