"So You're Pretty ... So You're Not..."

A day's views of a day's views.

 

 

So you're pretty... so you're not... You care - a lot, don't you?  or do you?  Do you even know I'm sitting here right now, head tilted just this way.  My eyes half-open, my mind barely holding its own as thoughts of how you are - whirl and float and flow and RUN soooooooo fast.

 

One instant - you GLOW!  The next, you shrink and seem to try so hard to disappear - to not be - to not ...be.  I see your eyes.  They focus and wander and focus - pause, return.  Lovely butterflies on life's breeze, pausing and darting, unseeing, shimmering and ...and leaving, going ...fading ...somehow lost and oh so more precious than my next breath will ever be.

 

I guess this isn't about you ...never was, really, about you.  It's my tear that glistens as you go back and forth, back ...and forth.  And yes you're pretty and no you aren't... but then it's all in my eyes isn't it... my mind, my eyes, our "I's" ...how and where you are.  How we each perceive we are.  What is real and when it isn't as real as we thought we were.  God knows less about me and it isn't even noon on yet another Tuesday.

 

Yet another Tuesday - after all.

 

Chris

 

 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[olla]

I tell my clients all the time that their magic mirror lies to them.. mine.. of course.. never tells me anything but the truth.. um.. I think.. it is really important that we look at ourselves through the eyes of our beloved.. theirs see so much clearer than ours do..

[Holly Mason]

this reads so nicely...life's breeze can change in a moment maybe they are just trying to figure out who they are....can cause focus to come in out in out
making this one Tuesday feel like twenty*)
you are such a lovely writer I smiled as soon as I saw you had a new piece
thank you so much my friend

[Chris]

anytime...

[Larry Dyson]

yes,they do....the days along with the butterflies ..come and go my friend

[Chris]

yeah... damn...

[Emily B]

stopped humbly by to watch the woods fill up with snow

[Chris]

they DO that so damned quietly...

[Emily B]

and yet, today, there was a quiet fog that lifted so slowly i wondered if it had ever been there at all