Dan Enache Poet Free verse

HER EYES IN YOUR EYES

HER EYES IN YOUR EYES

She carried another life inside her, hidden like a river beneath the ground,
she never showed her pain — her face was a wall, silent and holy;
nothing could be read on that face of amber and cold ash —
my consciousness is searching for her still, through every night that passes.

Young and wild — she left one evening and never came back,
the road swallowed her the way the sea swallows a shore of sand, wrung dry;
twenty years in their flower — a corolla torn before it could come whole —
and no one asked anything, and no one came looking for her again.

She never complained — and her silence was heavier than a mountain,
once she opened her mouth to say something — and it was the last time — a bridge
broken between what was and what might have been — a wound with no face —
and the world moved on, indifferent, like wind through sand.

When I see your eyes, hers come to me like two extinguished stars,
and the blood freezes in my veins at the thought of the same doors left open;
I do not want her pain to touch you ever, not even with a shadow —
I would hold you in my palms like a candle lit on the darkest evening.

What would a father do to the man who shattered his only world?
There is nothing I would not do, if your life stood on a bridge of steam;
I could not save her — my hands came back empty out of the wind —
but you I will not let slip through my fingers into the ground.

Her eyes look at me out of your eyes as out of a well with no bottom,
and in every look of yours I bury her again and hide her once more;
she carried another life inside her — and no one saw, and no one asked —
and I hold her hand, until even the night will be a clean beginning.

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