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Eyes Tell Stories

Eyes tell stories, 
Of love and loss,
Of pain and sorrow, 
And of a pasts hidden in the crevasses of who we are.

Eyes tell one what we need to know,
What we want to know,
And things we never thought we could know about ourselves. 

But when we look into the eyes around us,
This is not what we see. 
When we look into the eyes around us,
We see blue oceans, and brown fields
Surrounded by white skies. 
We see beauty or hatred, 
But we never see the truths and the stories.

When you look into my eyes do you see the reasons to the pain I feel daily? 
When you look into your mother or fathers eyes do you see the story of how their love came to be?
When you look into the prisoners eyes do you see a scared little boy who doesn’t want to be hit anymore. 
When you look into the eyes of the cheerleader do you see her father screaming at her to be better and do better. 
When you look into the eyes of the doctor do you see the patient that he just lost.
When you look into your eyes to do you see the reason you refuse to love, loss, and trust.

Eyes tell us stories and truths. 
They tell of hidden secrets,
 And unknown pasts,
They give away the secrets to who are, and who we will become. 
But all we see are blue oceans and brown fields surrounded by white skies. 
We see beauty or hatred, 
But we never see the truths and the stories.

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