The saddest eyes

Edvard Munch, "Girl Looking out the Window"

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To Bea 

You've got the saddest eyes I've known, 

Slanting down, bulging a little

On the whiteness of your nose,

               Crowning a certain chubby pinkness                       

From what to me seems like a throne.

You've got the saddest look 

My eyes have ever seen,

And yet, you see, it gives me joy:

Your eyes see me when all the world 
Around looks on myself with some neglect.

The very greenness of your eyes

Hides all the secrets never told,

Still I've heard your untold secrets

Within my soul 
a thousand times before.

The sea of sadness of your eyes is full of breathing air, 

And I rejoice to be the one you chose

That stormy day, the day we met,

The night you rescued me from drowning 

In the waters of despair

                               Before your eyes just glowed...

Natalie Cole #16 "That Sunday That Summer"

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