Tell Me Your Story

A Poem

Photo by Ryan Jacobson on Unsplash

Your eyes are the pages
I’ll never get to read in full
Because I’m too cowardly
As I hide behind shelves

I may watch you from afar,
But I’ve never learned a thing
Beyond the way you lean
Over a tome-like book

Maybe if I were a detective
I might know your every cue
Like how you swipe at your hair
When it falls in your face

The library seems perfect
For a clandestine meeting
But I’m still lost in the stacks
As you play in other worlds

Your lips curve in a smile,
And I long to find out
Just what words made you
Spark with open delight

Then you turn a page,
And you’re a mystery
I want to solve in seconds
Before you’re lost forever

I may as well be invisible,
Hiding under a magic cloak,
For how well I’m doing
In capturing your attention