No matter how hard I try
I can never recall
the colour of your eyes.
It's almost as if
I want to see them for the first time
every time.
Remember that evening
we spent walking in the Père Lachaise?
Summer had just ended,
but the birds didn't seem to know it yet.
It was the first time
I saw tears in your eyes.
Night came down swiftly
like a vast, mute protest.
There were no stars to be seen.
My favourite picture of you
features only a part of your palm
in the backseat on a highway.
The evening falling
slowly, sadly
all over the windshield
as the picture is being clicked.
Every bit of it sublimely ordinary
except for the hand
caught at the edge of the frame
unaware of its own grace
like a poem about to take shape.
I can never recall
the colour of your eyes.
It's almost as if
I want to see them for the first time
every time.
***
Remember that evening
we spent walking in the Père Lachaise?
Summer had just ended,
but the birds didn't seem to know it yet.
It was the first time
I saw tears in your eyes.
Night came down swiftly
like a vast, mute protest.
There were no stars to be seen.
***
My favourite picture of you
features only a part of your palm
in the backseat on a highway.
The evening falling
slowly, sadly
all over the windshield
as the picture is being clicked.
Every bit of it sublimely ordinary
except for the hand
caught at the edge of the frame
unaware of its own grace
like a poem about to take shape.
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