In your eyes

In your eyes

I would not be lost

I would not be left alone

Foundering

Undiscovered

Unknown

In your eyes I could see myself

I could understand my suffering

Because in your eyes

There was a place for me to be

True to the truth in me

From your eyes

I would not have to shield myself

As I so often have had to do

From the eyes of those

Who have never known my kind of loss

My kind of pain

Barricaded from those eyes

I would instead find myself lost

Believing just maybe

All that I had felt, endured, lived through, experienced

Was an illusion

No

In your eyes

I sense my own depths are seen

Because you also know

How much it hurts

And how desperate you can feel

When that abandonment leaves you

All alone

Falling through empty space

Without a hand to hold

Or eyes to find yourself

Beheld within

(For Noah)