open.
OPen.
OPEN those beautiful blue eyes.
Take in the colors, the sights, the sounds, the lights, the people, the faces, the memories
because each moment only happens once.
You are helpless, unaware of all that you are capable of.
Any sound you make is a miracle to those that love you, but what happens when those that love you only pretend…
pretend to be who they should or want to be, but not who they really are.
pretend to love, to care, to share in your joys, sorrows, accomplishments, pains.

Your beautiful blue eyes are open, but now too wide.
You wish you could make the aperture smaller so you could take in the good, not the bad.
You find yourself wishing you could unsee the pain and the cruelness you did not think those that claimed they loved you were actually capable of.

Alas that once helpless baby you were has become an adult with eyes too wide open, seeing the ugliness first instead of the beauty.
God made a world of joy and we destroy it with pain, but we wouldn't know joy without sorrow and we wouldn't know surviving without actually living.
So take the leap, become someone new, embrace change, but along the way there will be pain,
but please remember everything because each second is a snapshot of you being present.
We don’t think about it but each second is a moment you can never take back. Ever.

Pain begins to become not only emotional, but physical as well.
The moments we hold so near and dear that define our existence begin to slip out of our hands like salt being scattered on a cool icy morning in a small Michigan town.
Eyes begin to flutter and hands begin to shake as loved ones become strangers.
As you close those beautiful blue eyes, the world begins to blur, breaths begin to become strained and slow.
You come to the realization that each moment you dreamed about, thought of, anticipated have happened and are over. Forever.
Breath comes in and exhales for a final time.
CLOSE those beautiful blue eyes.
CLose.
close.