Fixed Gaze
Fixed Gaze
To capture the distant gaze
Of the aged's milky blue eye
Is to gaze into eternity.
Is it my eye they see
Or a distant memory,
The tiniest mote,
The light of a spark?
Fixed upon a place
Staring motionlessly,
Fearing to miss
A glimpse
Of who they might be.
A feeling of falling
Into the vastness of space.
No beginning no ending
Consciousness lost in place.
I swear we connected
Within that long stare.
The horror of knowing
Too soon I'd be there.
A milky blue iris
Not seeing the world
Not seeing me.
Fixed gaze,
The world staring back
At me.
Copyright © Kevin Lawrence | Year Posted 2018
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