Boundless Eyes

Everyday I stood in the mirror

Picking apart my face

To put together the one for the role I played

Showed up to the world, but I was gone

My eyes became my sweet escape released from the weights

Only place to be

When everything else I knew was wrong

I stared into my green eyes enough times

To notice every speck of yellow and orange around my pupils

Is that really me?

Are those eyes really mine?

Am I limited to the reflections of what I see?

I stared into my green eyes long enough

To lose the thoughts in my mind

To see past my body

Past the hues of the clothes I wear

Past the color of my skin, the color of my hair

Beyond a perception of color attached to vision

I’ve seen into me

But I’m not really I

Entered a space in-between this body and the sky

A boundless essence

Disconnected from time

Travelled to places that don’t yet have a name

In a form that imagination could not create

But this boundless essence

Is one I occupy

Inside of me

A world unseen

I felt the green

But who is I?