there are some things better left unheard, <br />as sometimes love is more when not being said, <br />but being seen. <br />eyes do not lie, <br />but lips and ears can burn, <br />just as hearts seem to do in turn. <br />it's not so much your looking <br />as it is your soul-seeing, <br />for the windows to the soul let only light <br />to the deepest darkest parts <br />and shut every other thing out with thinly-veined curtains. <br />but if darkness draws the light, <br />let darkness in <br />for curtains have a mind of their own, <br />and sometimes seem to separate of their own accord. <br />loving light is soft and gray, <br />it bends through sheets of cotton <br />like rivers through rocks and sand. <br />eroding slowly over time, <br />it softens and molds the shadows. <br />shining light loves to play on the surface of the water, <br />and often as friends they will switch, <br />so the sky almost seems wet, <br />and the stream shines like it is light, <br />for one could not live without the other, <br />as the terms seem almost inseparable. <br />so, like water, light flows into darkness. <br />(for without darkness there would be no light) <br />it filters in through the cracks and gradually eases, <br />what once was an unseemly mass of black night. <br />the scornful ebony that is so vulnerable <br />in the way it seems to take its greatest pride. <br />the walls around darkness destroy it, <br />for it keeps everyone out, <br />but darkness can only sustain itself for so long. <br />(for without light there would be no darkness) <br />cracks in the curtains reveal <br />a flowing mass of light that once ran through, <br />a frivol river it once knew, <br />dry paths, overgrown with weeds <br />can be cleared away again, <br />and footsteps may trod on the place if they wish. <br />a winding trail of rocks reaches out far into the twilight <br />and you may find <br />a river runs through it <br />once again.<br /><br />Ms. Queenie<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-river-runs-through-it-2/
