The Women With Sunrises in Her Eyes

The Women With Sunrises in Her Eyes

They said open your eyes and let beautiful things be understood by all you hope for and all you reach for.

So you took your eyes and searched the world around you for friends, for companions and those to love.

You took your dreams and reached triumphantly for those to show you there's more beautiful beyond what you know.

They asked your eyes to trail them and said, “follow me and I'll show you all that's wondrous and majestic.”

You believed in grace without bounds for you know that kindness can come as love and as a friend.

So you carried your sorrows with your while you lost hardships and broken memories in the wind as if you were chiseled by both opportunity and inspiration.

To lose all that you ever thought was grievous and burdensome somewhere in the wind you knew, “nobody knows which way the wind blows and that's how you knew those miseries would be forgotten and lost forever.”

So you reached for brilliance and let it touch you showing you all the beautiful around you, like the intricate, texture to leaves on trees to the delicacy of the fairness of human skin you found worlds you never knew of that had always existed before your eyes.

I asked them if we're seeing life shown more clearly and they said, “if this is heaven I understand why some say we come from caves and others say we come from gardens but both together may be closest to the truth.”

Then one day I saw her. She had hair like wildflowers as if she adorned her head with all of nature she felt was beautiful.

She had eyes like sunrises for when she stared into me I could not feel anything but warmed as if it's like a completely new day.

I said be her of God or man I don't know but no one could be fairer to bless my walk through these woods.

So I asked her, “why does light seem to rise itself from where I see you stare?”

She said to me, “I'm just planting seeds and watching for the sky to have them grow.”

I asked her, “how is it women know of the love such beautiful things?”
She smiled and said to me, “because women are the mothers of men and without a heart you have nothing to grow and without light you have nothing to grow from.”

I laughed and said, “I never had a mother I felt had loved me, for she was torn between trial and hardship and I always loved her and I know she loves me because otherwise how could I ever love at all?”

The woman got more serious and asked, “do you want to walk through these gardens with me past the woods? There's a stream by the garden and we'll swim to forget these worries and these pains.”

She took my hand and then I stepped with her through the grass sidestepping flowers along the way.

We went through wilderness walking between trial and difficulty until we found the garden she had spoke of past the woods.

She showed me all the beautiful things she wanted me to touch. They were things I never knew at all and always felt were beautiful. She took my hand and led me to the water and said, let me swim with you and let the water carry us and let these past things fall away somewhere beneath the riverbed.

So I stepped into the water and it first felt cold yet I found when I stepped with her it never mattered.

Then I found the secret and the truth to all human life. It's that we can never truly ever be clean without someone to love us and we can never truly feel clean until we have someone that does.

For all my life I had searched for love I never thought I had when it was in front of me every day in the ones that care and the ones that take me with them.

I asked her then what her name was and she said, “my name is like lily for I'm as delicate as a white dove. I carry wildflowers with me because I'm as wild as a wilderness for I see beauty in even the most common of people.”

Then I asked her who she loved and she laughed and replied, “you're the first man who has ever been to this river with me. Others have walked through the woods and even one or two have been in the garden with me but you stayed until you'd swim with me in the river.”

I then asked her, “can I swim forever with you here? I've always loved a woman who likes lilies and wildflowers but I really always just wanted to swim.”

She looked at me again and I saw the sunlight I saw earlier in her eyes reflected from the water and she said, “I've never much been a fan for water but we'll have this stream as our sacred place we go to be alone together and what I really want is to walk through the world with you.”

So then I took her hand and I walked her through all the places I wanted to see, “the coliseums of Rome, the Parthenon of Greece, the castles of Ireland and then the beauty of the United States.”

Then one day I asked her when we went back to our little river next to the garden why she wanted to see such great things and she replied, “because I wanted you to work for them so you'd be able to see them with me.”

I never knew how much she would help me until I realized she was the reason I wrote this poem because I know one day she will.