Behind her eyes

So much has changed in my heart over time,

where I was once so dark my eyes now shine.

Touched by something I was so blind to before,

a feeling within I just can’t ignore.

She was there waiting for me in my pain,

lifting me up to taste life again.

Doubtful man breaking clean from his ways,

seeking out hope in the darkness he embraced.

Covered by truth in a world covered in lies,

found in his heart her beautiful eyes.

Slipping past the reasons to die,

blood soaked tears in each moment he cried.

Behind this man is a woman of pure love,

giving so freely what would surely be enough.

Lifting his head whenever he would fall,

changed by fate in the truth of it all.

He wandered alone in the shadows of grief,

unable to love for what he believed.

Tested each day to hate even more,

broken man heart shattered on the floor.

A kiss of life bringing new ways to see,

beyond his guilt his love was made free.

Each moment he tries to deny,

he is reminded by love, by hope, by the love in her eyes.

















Johnny Newell