By sweetness
Date: 2001 Oct 28
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[[2001.10.28.20.29.2584]]

Different Light

It took just a moment
for everything to change
for the light and glint in her eye
to captivate me.
the same green eyes i had seen
a thousand days before
looked at me in a whole new light
and I looked back
and for the first time I didn't see my brother's wife
my niece's mother
my grandmother's nurse
I saw a sweet mouth I wanted to taste
skin to touch
a scent to breathe
a neck to bury my face in
when the day is long
and my temper short.
hands that would rub my head
a gentle voice in my ear
a feeling of being home at last.
But it was only a moment
before reality took it away.