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Blind (Masked) Love

Blonde hair? Blue eyes? Endearing smile?

Nah, they had unmistakable dark hair,

With even darker eyes yet,

And I’d laugh whenever they smiled.


Yet I fell for those eyes,

Those dreadfully strained veiny whites,

Their air of curiosity and contrasting aura of intelligence.


I fell for those strands,

Twirling them between my fingers as they lay in my lap.

Hoping, just hoping a couple would fall off and stay behind with me when they have to depart.


I fell for that smile,

The little giggle that accompanied it too,

The wrinkles on their cheeks as they tried in vain to form dimples.


I wish, I could say I fell for those lies,

Because they never did “lie to me”.


But they made me nervous to my stomach,

Butterflies they say, Fluttering.

But mine were Rumbling,

And I could swear they heard those, as they lay on my womb.


They were the sole gardener in my garden of elation,

Unpaid labor however, my grave underestimation.


How far could I possibly have fallen?

For such high concentration of imperfection?

How COULD I deserve perfection?


Questions I can’t ask…Why?

Am I scared of the question?

Or might I be terrified of the answer?


Nevertheless, I got my answer,

It got me actually.

How could they?

Why did they?


But I had already known,

I had already seen.

How then does it still suprise me?


Riveting individual(s),

Perhaps love isn’t truly blind

But it does blind.

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