The uncertain world of hope
Could you turn down please
Your smile and full eyes that tease
Are the only world
I make in me
When your glowing defies
My lightness to live in gravity
And your brown skin ignites my white
There is nothing to pretend
It is you I am reaching into
To push back to a freer life
Where if only creates this dream
I am the breath in your parting lips
How the deal then that kiss would be
Somewhere between
Immersion and unreality,
But here the rejecting
The self-delusory road correcting
Slow accepting
What cannot
Those impossibilities so well known
Always, always just want to disown
But then I look again
And you are there
Your dark eyes and full smile
That please
That ever please
Photo, Sintra, Portugal, October 2015. Poem written October 2017 from an idea when listening to The World Is Ours by Tokimonsta, and thinking of someone's eyes and smile, attraction and differences, and why we can't or don't.