You Looking at Me?

"When he looks back at me, his eyes travel around my face the way fingers dart through the bottom of a drawer, searching for batteries in a blackout." Holly Schindler

THE MAG

 A Magpie Tale

Bathers 1950 By George Tooker

Dream Lover

No MATTER HOW MANY TIMES

I LOOK at YOU

YOU'RE JUST NOT THERE

There's a love in my heart

if put to lines

of a sonnet

all fourteen lines

would be all you.

But you know that.

I'm left like 

a deflated beach ball that

sits idle, makes no sense 

your love was that

of free verse

and nothing more between the lines.

Now everywhere I look- I see you.

But you're just not there.

"I will find you.  In the farthest corner, I will find you."
Mary E. Pearson

"Or, perhaps-"

"Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed."
Mary E. Pearson