My Eyes Are Healing

Sometimes you crack me up
in unexpected ways

and the crack begins to
hatch wide open

whatever misconceptions
I've been sitting on, incubating,
letting

light in so that i can see
a different angle of you that I
had always missed before,

another color, a different shape

or intricate pattern

in the kaleidoscope of all

your stained glass.

My eyes are healing

but last week I had a touch of pink eye
and as a result
I wore less makeup.
I was not shocked by the sight of
my own face.

He says, "You don't need to be so dramatic"
be he's wrong.
sometimes I do need

to be so,
and that girl in the mirror,

I like her, most days,
and I am not surprised
so much, any longer,

when I recognize her.
-12/28/08

-XOXO,