Drawn

you … came to me today (from anon) wholly untold to your concerns but real enough … I was plodding the beach, tending wounds when you tossed your smile at me from a shrouded sun off whitecaps, bursting into dazzle - echoes, alit each a memory, recaptured brief as a blink … but I was transfixed, as always immersed in your burnt ochre irises gold flecks like shiny confetti, fluttering they hadn’t held me since … forever, really and as then, the brilliance within was unsettling - a piercingly perceptive acumen that probed, unchallenged though your countenance always smoothed the edges - a bubbly exuberance and gravity an eager affability - thawed everything around you and … everyONE effecting the grandest of illusions that whatever you aimed your attentions at was your dearest concern and your one TRULY careful involvement … when in all actuality we - the matter and matters about you - were just a multitude of merry moths … to your flame. Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, June 8, 2023