Look back in

A face emerges from behind closed eyes

A face that is remembered from years past

Staring deep into my soul

From within she stares

Watching me fail 

Watching me stumble home

A face emerges from behind closed eyes

Waiting for me to rise out of this darkness

Waiting to see my name in the sky

This face

Lost in history

Staring back at me 

Every time I close mine Eye

The minds eye

Privy to the visitor from within

The soul trapped behind mine eye

A beacon for my future

A reminder of my past

Who I want to be

Whom I want to be with me

She is there

From behind closed eyes

Staring at me 

Wanting me to become 

What I need to be

Who I should have become long ago

 

A face emerges from behind closed eyes

My eyes

Haunted by she whom I could never have

Without smothering who she was to be