When I Look at Your Eyes

When I look at your eyes

I see twenty years of time

That I have thrown away

Pursuing dreams

That were not what they seemed

Ideals that were not real

Social ties that were lies

When I look at your lips

I see the happiness

Like water over a cliff

That has slipped

Another ten years of my life

Gone

I ask my self why the beauty that is you

Is missing from my life

But the voice within

Says, Look again.

I look again

You who are now a mirror within

I see the curve of your body

Your breasts, your hips, your thighs

You a dove who flies

And the inner voice says,

Let go,

This woman is inside you

Her body is a mountain that knows peace

It is a stream that flows free

It is a forest green

Where time has no need of dreams

Or schemes or needs that look back

And ask why,

Only the beauty in your eyes

Is a morning that shines

Only the beauty in your lips

Is a twilight's rest.

You have opened a door in my heart

That was locked and forgotten and lost

But now I pass through

And find you

Forever in my heart.