Eyes of Storm
- - - Call her “Tempest”, for hers are eyes of storm.
- Winds of passions held at bay, a torrent of tears uncried,
- - - - Fulmine sparks caged in those confines
- yearn to flash unchained into the night,
- - - - - and peace is seldom found behind the clouded walls
- - - - - - - - - in her eyes of storm.
- - Her face provides no inference nor does manner hers supply
- - - - - - but the slightest indication
- - - - - of the tumult found inside.
- - - Wild and twisted tresses hers do hint with subtlety
- - - - - the wants, the needs,
- - - - - - - - the hopes,
- - - - - - - - - the fears,
- - - - - - - the sorrows
- - - - - - - - - 'neath veils of lashes bound.
- - - A sharpened tongue and razor wit, iced cold with frigid stares,
- - are evidence more of the battle fought within those founts of tears.
- - - Her clouds spiral ever faster, and her waves mount higher still…
- - - - - - - - her tormentuous seas
- - - - have victims claimed,
- - - - - - for none have yet them tamed.
- - Within those eyes of Tempest rage unfettered memories
- - - - - - of sailors many and sailors for whom
- - - - the task proved beyond reach...
- - - for yet has one to brave those eyes
- - - and weather well the gale…to find the calm I know is there
- - - - - - - - within her eyes of storm.
- - - I thought once to be a sailor, to face undaunted the wind and rain.
- - Methinks I once caught sight of sun amid her skies of darkened gray.
- - - - - - - I know the calm is in there,
- - - - - - - - - in the heart of this hurricane,
- - - - - Though I doubt 'tis I who'll find the peace
deep within her eyes of storm.
- - Yea, call her “Tempest”, call her “Storm”, call her “Calamity”,
- - - - - - - - but fear not the rain,
- - - - - - - - nor winds, nor waves
- - - - she'll hurl in direction thine,
- for somewhere beyond her wall of clouds
- - - - - - - - - is Eden in her eyes of storm.
Copyright © Daniel Beus | Year Posted 2023
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