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I Left My Eyes Open

January 8, 2016
By nnh2018 SILVER, Radford, Virginia
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How could I forget that night?

When my heart was set in motion

They say that love is blind,

I left my eyes open.

 

Traced his fingers across my skin

Painting the memories

Of when my life began

And searing lips, a thousand degrees

 

There was stardust in hair

It made the nighttime gleam

And maybe then I was unaware

But he was the stuff of dreams

 

When we left the world behind

Mountains crumbled into the ocean

They say that love is blind,

I left my eyes open.

© Allison H., Vancouver, WA

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