The Poetry of Richard Sansom
Published by The British Sansom Society


The Eyes
The Eyes

Of all the human features, it is the eye ball,

the eye ball, that is not so different as to make us different,

and the rest of us, our skin, our size, our language, our country

our past, our hopes, our beliefs and our fingers around triggers,

these do not matter ---- it is the eye ball, singular, round, pure,

and the two entry ways to the human core

that sits waiting for the connection,

and they are there, if we but see the eyes, catch the eyes,

hold the eyes, never let go of the eyes,

align one’s own definite moment, one’s planted reality

in the space and time of what the four eyes do

in the traveling messages that have no words

but only the ancient, golden, toxic and life-giving bolt

that moves between the eyes like the brightest light

one can imagine, like the shooting energies they say

emanates from black holes, or the searing lights from

atomic explosions, or the light of a single candle

in a dark cave, amid the strongest storm that might destroy

the rest of the world --- it is the eyes that connect us.
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