Decisions

Your eyes mull over my cheekbones in silence.
They have decided something,
these mutiny parts of ours.
If only they could sprout mouths,
tell us what they have found,
then we might not be here -- 
me with the dead skin of my fingers,
you with your brown patches for eyes.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011



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