turn away

turn away bright eyes

before I have to close mine

to shut out the light

stripping my masquerade

.

turn away bright eyes

before I have to run

I can feel this pressure

erasing my defences

.

turn away bright eyes

before the tears begin

I need you to stop

decalcifying my heart

.

turn away bright eyes

before this dam wall bursts

I can feel your truth

crumbling my embankment

.

turn away bright eyes

the intensity is searing

I can’t afford to lose my balance

and the floods are nearing

.

turn away bright eyes

your light is too potent

I am cowardly of love and

vulnerability has awoken

.

turn away bright eyes

leave me in the black

I can’t stand your gleaming light

exposing every part

.

turn away bright eyes

this dam was built with reason

I encased my fear behind these walls

to never have to feel it

.

turn away bright eyes

your fire is scalding

it’s illuminating glare

evaporating my illusion

.

turn away bright eyes

but please don’t go too far

for although I can’t look into them

I also cannot part

.

turn away bright eyes

return me to the dark

but of your light would you mind

to leave me just a spark?

.

.

.

I thought I’d try to write this without rhyming ✨ Which proved impossible. So instead I tried less rhyming. ✨ Which was arguably all harder than writing it with a rhyme! ✨ My mind likes to rhyme. ✨ Must be the ancestral incantations in my blood memory 😉 Thank goodness we are in 2022…2023! ✨ I would have been burned at the stake in years past. I actually think all of us poets would have been!✨