Home in Your Eyes

Home in Your Eyes


Battered by rough winds,
never granted steel wings.
Lovely butterfly wings only fly.
Reality proved too tough to cling.

I am soft, gauze tangled,
torn, bleeding and hopeless.
First, you unravel me gently.
Repair my tragic “lost nest’.

Pools of desire, I want to swim.
Float in your serenity, peace.
Calm liquid bathing my limbs.
Shelter from storms of a life.

I want to be born anew.
Blessed, saved, anointed.
A clean woman in sweet dew?
Virgin pearl fashioned by sand?

Protect me please, I beg you.
Life is a menagerie, a wildlife cage,
Clawing, wild unleashed rage.
You grow stronger, even with age.

I can hide in soulful eyes.
sky blue beauty, love and joy.
Unlike me, you prefer to see.
The best any person can be.

By Kathie Stehr
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