HAVE YOU SEEN MY LOVE (FROM HALF JACK AND LEPRECHAUN, A STORY FROM ADVENTURER’S HORN)

 

HAVE YOU SEEN MY LOVE?

Have you seen my love?

Have you gazed into her eyes?

I’ve read that eyes

Cannot change color.

Not once, but several times

I have observed those magic portals.

Sometimes as through fog from a distance

And also from a sweet breath away,

When I feel like a man prone on desert sands,

Soaking in the healing wetness

Of a cool oasis pool.

At times those luscious orbs

Appear grey like the sea

On a gloomy turbulent day.

Other times they are dark blue,

Flecked with silver

Like majestic granite mountains

At dusk.

My favorite color

-although I love them all-

Is when they are bright

Like glowing turquoise

And scintillating sapphires.

More dazzling than her mystical smile

lips

It seems

That she is happiest then.

Whatever the color –

Green, gold, teal or sapphire –

My Love’s eyes sparkle

Like burnished gold and silver.

Large, pretty,

Swallowing the earth and the sea,

As they scry the world.

They are gems that mirror

A soul

That has traveled through great fires.

One in a million,

She is more beautiful

Than Venus on the half shell.

While I am lost in the fantastic dreamscape

Of those marvelous eyes

I can barely fathom

The rest of her bounty.

Gifted and possessing a quick mind,

Kindness and mercy flow

From the font of her innermost being.

She is a kindred spirit,

A lost princess

And the 8th wonder of the world.

Date unknown.

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