where her eyes should have been
were two jewels through which I have seen continents appear
and when she smiled at me the sea opened up and swallowed me,

in those lost islands of men where I wandered
I squandered time as if time was forever,
wasting minutes in the shallows casting arrows at the minnows which in turn become the mirrors that turned against me.

But her eyes were always with me
sparkling like the sea and
inviting me to dive in
once again.