sunsets

i've started to see

sunsets

in other people's eyes

~ unless i'm seeing them someplace else ~

watching the lines

blur together, watching

horizontal flags,

the stripes of secret

shadows, the sun-kissed

suggestions of

another life,

another place

~ written in song lyrics, in colors, in gazes and glances and tears ~

i find comfort in the

sunsets

in other people's eyes

~ they're familiar when they look like mine ~

to feel not so alone,

to breathe in the air

swamped by silence,

to accept their

colors

as i've accepted

my own

~ open your eyes, let me see your sunset ~