Arc Eye

That face and form are burned so deep into my brain,
that my sight seems permanently impaired;
somehow, that image's a looming silhouette
that appears wherever I look
 
Like the dot that seems to block out all else
after staring into the sun,
I see glimmers of it in every crowd I walk through,
every face I pass, everywhere I turn, every time I dream 

How I long to see clearly, 
how I long to forget
that I looked too long,
into the sun
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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Manassian Avatar
August 23, 2014 at 10:13 PM
A beautiful write...filled with longing and pain. A lost love is hard to forget....
Brown Avatar
August 24, 2014 at 1:25 PM
Ah, to forget sounds divine. But then....I'd never have anything to write about :)
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