Just crashing beneath you,

Just ashes

Maybe flames,

We're mayhem together

And those dark blue eyes call my name.

He's taking my hand,

Your eyes unreadable

Your lips silent.

He's begging for a dance,

He's taking my hand,

Are you even there-

My eyes begging you to cut in.

The seas may separate us,

And the mountains a wall

People holding us back,

But won't faith allow it all?

His eyes are the only thing she throws herself into-

and she doesn't say no.

Or can't?

Let me speak

Don't suffocate my breath

May my opinion sway

Someone's political death?

Your eyes grab mine

Not willing to let go

A moment it's only

But for eternity I'll know

I'd love you forever

If you'd only say so.

But the clock is ticking

The pressure is mounting

Tis gravity on our side?

Tonight'll decide.

Push past the expectations,

Look over their eyes,

Grab me in your arms,

Just say you're mine.

Nodded to the man with the veterans cap

Eyes filled with more than I'll ever know

Vietnam
Korea
Iraq and Iran
Germany
Japan, and Italy.

Traces of blood
Stained on the smallest of forms.

Largest of hearts,
Torn by tyranny, terror and trauma.

Biggest of men,
Shorn by the bullets.

Comrades mere inches away,
Dead in a moment of a minute.

Tears of mothers watering their graves-
Widows in black
Tracing their name.

The old man's bearing,
Wearing a thousand legends
Protection and freedom laced his form.

And I?

I nodded to a hero in a veteran's cap.

Color of my skin,

Defines me in a way

I cannot control,

And have no say.

Colors of my heart,

So many different shades

Never defines me,

In the world of today.