How She Feels

The Ocean in His Eyes

He stared into her eyes longing

"Such innocence," he thought

But his gaze did not search 

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To see the colors residing within those pupils

"Oh, but he does not know"

She cried inwardly

For her thoughts of him were not of purity

But reeking of contained love

And she could not stop her eyes

From traveling the lengths of his soul

His eyes were like the ocean

She longed to wade in

Still she sealed her mouth firmly shut

Resisting the thoughts that came racing in

Thoughts of lust and rushing in

So she let him believe in her innocence

Letting him be surprised

By wicked words and lonely nights

And some nights she walked the sands

Of his darkening mind

And other times in daylight

she

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 into the oceans of his eyes

Never being found again

But the stars remembered

Where she had been