Through My Eyes

It doesn’t seem half as bad, only if you look…through my eyes

It doesn’t feel quite as sad, only if you look…through my eyes

All those lonely awful nights, I wish you’d know how much I despise

The empty afternoons, the hollow evenings, Oh! those ominous skies

An aching heart, a shattered mind, and a gloomy pair of eyes

Wish you’d open up your heart n’ your soul, to my melancholic cries!

But you’d only know…. if you’d look…through my eyes!

How I wish we could turn back time, and bring back the spice

Or just simply leave it all behind, and take another roll at the dice

Be like how we used to be once, like sugar n spice…like fire n ice

They say, once bitten twice shy, but I’ve been bitten more than thrice!

But you’d only know…. if you’d look…through my eyes!

Nothing lasts forever I’ve been told, but a man like me always tries

Now that I’ve almost given up hope, I’d still hope for a pleasant surprise

You can take my dreams away if you’d like, but my spirit, only on my demise

Sorry dear readers, I regret this poem’s utterly maudlin premise

But you’d only know…. if you’d look…through my eyes!

Life has been kind to me in not being all rainbows and butterflies

I’ve forever been chasing fireflies, with more lows than highs

You walked in through that door, I thought I saw an angel in disguise

As the years went by, age and wisdom taught me otherwise!

But you’d only know…. if you’d look…through my eyes!