Your Eyes [Jalex]

Your eyes were the best teachers I ever had 

I learned things I never knew existed 

About who you were 

And who I thought you were going to be 

It was bliss

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Your eyes used to tell me stories 

Of places you wanted to go 

Faraway lands with no one but us 

Alone with me 

Alone together

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They used to show me how you felt 

Your biggest emotional giveaway 

Happy, loving, sad, and everything between 

When you were angry your eyes would darken 

And do so as well when you craved me at four AM

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When we sat alone on a Friday night 

With just the surrounding smoke of joints to accompany us 

Your eyes would stare at me in wonder 

I might have been your mystery to solve 

You were mine 

But your eyes didn't show that

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Your eyes used to shine  

My favorite color alight with the spark of life 

Like a million tiny stars lived in the orbs of coffee brown

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Your eyes taught me how to trust  

They showed me you cared 

You would always care 

At times too much for your own good

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I haven't been able to trust now  

For how long, I don't know exactly 

I don't see the care 

But I must think 

To be fair 

That it is there

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Have the stars burned out 

Because your eyes don't shine as bright 

When you look at me 

They don't sparkle

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Your eyes show me how you feel 

But the number of emotions has come down 

Drastically 

In the morning you are tired 

By midday you are bored 

And at night when I tell you I love you 

As we lay in our cold bed, in our cold bedroom 

Your eyes are closed 

You are asleep

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The stories I read through your eyes  

Are not as fun 

As they were when we were young 

There is nowhere to go that is far away 

Far away is where we already are 

Or perhaps, just you

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Your eyes don't stare in wonder 

Or in lust or in love 

They don't stare at all much, rather glance 

And that is all

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Your eyes have changed with you 

Some of me thinks that you have seen 

More than you can bear 

Something to take away the emotion 

The vividity and the innocence  

Of needing a place to get away to 

Alone with me 

Alone together

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Your eyes are still my favorite color 

And I will continue to watch then like a TV show 

Until the light goes out 

Completely

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Your eyes taught me so much  

About who you were 

And who I didn't know you were going to be 

Things I never knew existed 

And wish didn't