The pain of looking
Into your eyes
Without knowing
Your intentions
Unbearable
As I smile appearing
To be content
Your eyes and
Your lips
Contradict each other
When you whisper
I love you
Distant is your gaze
Clearly you are afraid of being
Discovered
So your tender words
Lose their meaning
Never being
Validated by those
Once passionate eyes
When you learned
To look past
The love
Of a man
On his knees
Before you
With dreams of
Forever holding you
Who now sits at the
Negotiating table
With father time
Pleading for just
Another sunrise
By your side.