By Misti Velvet Rainwater
Date: 11 August 2000
Waking up to Your Gaze
waking up to your gaze
is the sacred
I cherish
and your eyes are hazel, after all
not brown
I want to wear a new gown for you
every night
and be the one you yearned for
when you were on your back
looking up
at the stars
in the fishing boat
while I was spinning around on a tennis court
in Oklahoma
knowing
there had to be more
because I was so alive
I could have jumped
out of my skin
and over
the moon
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