These Eyes

These eyes that have seen,
Much of love and lust,
That have seen what could be,
What had been, what must.

These eyes that have seen,
Much of greed and love of gain,
That have seen the frustration,
The jealousy, the anger and the pain.

These eyes that have seen,
Also many hearts yearn and ache,
That have seen pairs twisted by fear,
And mistrust of what was fake.

These eyes see only the beauty today,
Only the wonder and amazement and awe,
And the love, above all the love,
The most true and frank these eyes ever saw.

These eyes.

These eyes that have seen so much,
These eyes, they hope will see much more,
These eyes that have wet so much,
Will cry only for joy now and forevermore.

These eyes.

The first ever long song on this blog

To be cared for, to be treasured.
That is how the worth of a man is measured.
To be thought the world of, to be loved.
That's how you get to heaven up above.

And I know that your prayers are with me,
As are your hopes and your wishes and your dreams.
And so I know I'll sail through this tempest,
I'll overcome, no matter how hard it seems.

What was and has been is now all past.
I'll just make sure what comes now will last.
And I'll take every pain, I'll make every try,
Just to make sure that you never cry.

I'll wring water our of the stones of this world.
When it seems to tough for you to go on,
And I'll hold up my hand, as high as I can,
And say, Look here I am, carry on.

And I'll do everything in every way,
Every way I know how.
I've messed up my life, and run away from strife,
But I don't have to run anymore now.

I'll write poems for you on every birthday,
And every other week besides.
I'll sing you sweet songs, I'll learn to play along,
And make sure, happiness abides.

In your heart, and my heart and our hearts,
And we be one pair in two exact parts.
We'll travel and sail and play and read,
Cause you give me everything I'll ever need.

In the end all I can say,
Is that I love more than I
Ever though would be possible again,
But here you are, the apple of my eye.

I love you, need you, adore you,
As much as a heart can adore.
And sometimes I think that that's not all,
I love you even more.

IRIS

After a long time, long long long time, happiness came into my life. And it is called R.

I've known many people, and many people who've known many other people. Yet I can say with complete honesty, complete lack of hyperbole, I've never met anyone quite like her.

It takes depth of character to appreciate a depth of character in others, and so in knowing her, mine has been restored. I, like so many across the globes of time and the earth, have lost much. And I declare with complete veracity, it all ended on the day I met her (by chance, as always with these things!!!).

Thank you Vera, for showing me how nice a person can be, even though you be in Riga right now, and probably haven't read this blog even once. And thank you R, for showing me how nice a person can be when he has such a nice person to know.



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Why IRIS? It is, among other things, the title of a song that she gave me, and which has stuck in my mind ever since. This, along with Society, You're a crazy breed, seem to me the truest songs in the world.

It is safe to say that even though I've put the song on repeat on my car's CD player, I cry once every day when I hear it.

So here are the lyrics, I hope someone (maybe charu or even rahul) can appreciate what I found to be wonderful.



And I'd give up forever to touch you
Cause I know that you feel me some how
You're closest thing to heaven that I'll ever been
And I don't want go home right now


And all I can taste is this moment
And all I can breath is your life
And sooner or later it's over
I just don't want to miss you tonight

[Chorus]

And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am


And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming
All the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive

[Chorus]
And I don't want the world to see me
Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am


This is the song. Iris, by the Goo Goo dolls. And Though I'd heard it before, I'd never listened.