When your gaze found mine, the whole world swayed, As if the earth had missed a hidden beat; The sunlight suddenly grew unafraid, Then melted like warm gold around my feet. I tried to look away, but something stayed, A trembling little universe in you; My eyes became two doors I could not close, And every secret seemed to wander through. I felt my cheeks turn roses in the rain, A sudden fire underneath my skin; The stars began to whisper my sweet shame, While little suns kept blooming from within. Your eyes were not just eyes, they were a place, A strange blue room where gravity was gone; I wandered through the silence of your gaze And somehow lost the person I was on. My heartbeat stumbled, then forgot its name, It ran barefoot through corridors of light; I blushed as though the moon had called me beautiful, Then hid my face from heaven's watching sight. The trees leaned closer, jealous of the view, The flowers opened wider just to see; Even the wind became unusually shy, As thoug...
Just when I set my eyes on you, the sky
Forgot its blue and learned another shade;
The moon came loose and wandered through the night,
As if it had mistaken you for day.
The stars fell slowly, one by one, like rain,
And landed trembling somewhere in my chest;
The clocks grew wings and fled across the plain,
While every breath forgot what came up next.
The trees began to whisper through their leaves,
Speaking in a language only silence knew;
A river lifted itself above the reeds,
And carried broken pieces of the moon.
I saw a thousand sleeping oceans rise,
Their silver waves unfolding in your eyes;
Old constellations opened like wounds,
And unfamiliar heavens changed their skies.
The earth beneath my feet became a dream,
Its roads dissolved into a drifting stream;
I reached for you, but distance turned to smoke,
And something in my sleeping heartbeat woke.
Your shadow crossed the sunlight on the wall,
Yet somehow it was taller than the night;
I watched my lonely yesterday dissolve,
As though your glance had turned it into light.
I cannot say what happened in that stare,
Perhaps the universe misplaced a door;
Perhaps my heart had always waited there,
Before it knew what waiting was for.
And now, wherever wandering dreams may lead,
Your face appears where empty spaces bloom;
You planted something strange inside my sleep,
And taught the darkness how to make it bloom.
Since then, the world has never looked the same;
The stars seem closer, and the moon feels new.
I lost the person I once was that day,
The moment my eyes found you.
© 2026 Gloria Penelope
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