Behind These Eyes (poem)

My goal in 2011 is to have a folder full of poems like I had in 2007. I stopped writing in 2009, wrote a little more in 2010, and I need to get back to what I love to do.

Behind These Eyes

If only you could see what lies behind these eyes

Secrets

Pain

Lies

Stories I tell myself to make me smile

Confidence I fake

Truth I crave to find

If only you could see what lies behind these eyes

Starvation of love

Hope for more

Wish for something to change

Thoughts of making it end

Ideas of stealing anothers dream

Drive to make my own dreams come true

If only you could see what lies behind these eyes

Then maybe you would see my hunger

A hunger for what I have never had

You would see how much I hide myself

You'd understand the tears I dare not shed

Maybe you could help me

Though, I am beyond outside help

If only you could see what lies behind these eyes

I would no longer be alone

I could smile a real smile

I would tell him how I feel

Put away my fears and step out

Bathe in the calming light of the moon

Become the woman I should have always been

If only you could see what lies behind these eyes

Secrets

Pain

Lies

Then you could save me