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...
I woke up with a raw smile where my tears were meant to be. No one noticed. Morning was busy unfolding its pale machinery, the kettle coughing up ghosts, the windows chewing sunlight, the floorboards remembering the weight of every footstep that had ever left. I stood before the mirror and found my face slightly wrong. My eyes were too quiet. My mouth was bleeding light. There was a smile there, red at the edges, unfinished in the middle, like someone had carved happiness into a door without knowing what lived behind it. I touched it. It smiled harder. So I stopped touching it. Outside, the city had grown wings overnight but refused to fly. Buildings leaned into one another like tired animals. Traffic lights whispered the names of the dead. A woman walked past carrying a jar full of rain, and every drop inside it was trying to become a memory. I wanted to ask her where the sky had gone. Instead, my raw smile answered for me. It said nothing. It said everything. It said: I am fine. And ...