It was morning with a gloomy sky, <br />Huge greys hovering so high… <br />Without intention or knowing how, <br />I found a lady’s eyes, and thought, “ wow! ” <br /> <br />I might be mistaken, even in my assumption, <br />Did God want me to see her? <br />What beauty now that perplexes me…! <br />I realize what a foolish thing it is of me to think, <br />These are matters of coincidence, <br />I need not make a fuss over it. <br /> <br />While the wind blows around us, <br />And that which blows within mine head, <br />These thoughts have robbed me, <br />Of a scene I did not see… <br />An’ yet the evidence is a cause for pity, <br />For what wipes the tears of a beauty like her? <br /> <br />Even in my notions and possible ventures, <br />I still see what supple lips she muses with… <br />To steal a kiss, seems my most chanting desire. <br />But my duty firm catches me, <br />And offer my fold handkerchief… <br /> <br />While her tears soak in my private clothe, <br />An’ proceed hence to comfort her, <br />My own tears begin to blur, <br />my sight of here Venus company. <br />While this gentle one tells a tale, <br />Of things unlike her beauty, of a cruel nature I am broken. <br />While I am a Man…an’ cries not! <br />I hold mine within these lashes… <br />I hope that she sees not, for am her strength… <br />For of the entire world, only I…. <br />Stopped and stared, <br />Of her beauty an’ not her chore. <br /> <br />While her purse fill with crippled notes, <br />Her makeup ill on her face, <br />when her tears erode thee superficial… <br />even I commit some courage to restrain from comment. <br />Cloths cling tight on her skin, <br />The hoarse shrill of her voice, <br />She is a comforter of men, <br />but she is found a comforter then. <br /> <br />I judge not, for what I know not of, <br />Her heart riddled with malice, <br />Tethered an’ shred by sodomite men, <br />With her teary eyes… <br />She is keen, an thanks me in a heartening shrug… <br />There are Men unlike men… <br />An’ we part without a word thence.<br /><br />Merlin Mwaura<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/teary-eyes/
