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The Currency of a Smile
~TigressSky © December 26, 2014~
"Whom am I being if those I interact with eyes are not shining?" ~Benjamin Zander
Whom have I ever been
Besides this girl hoping
To gift you this smile
Smiles like roses only last so long
Somehow, sometime, they are replaced
By long forgotten song
Of the darkness I have sat within
Wanting nothing more than to be
Seen, heard, felt, known
Intertwined
In the madness of who you are
With me inside
Outside
The world laughs
Cold emptiness filling the streets
The house is silent
Memories fading
As if you and I had never
Seen each others eyes and wanted
More than ever before
To lose all sense of time
A long pause to simply get to know
Every damn thing
Hidden beneath your scars
Pull me into your arms
Feel me shudder in question
Of your lips pressed upon my own
While fingertips trail along
Every mapped curve of discovery
Until reaching the spot marked by ecstasy
Release me momentarily
Until once again
I am covered
By the rise and fall
Of your tide
Crashing upon my shore
Nothing more than a dream
From sometime before
Whiskey became the enemy
And the band stopped singing
Our favorite songs
Are full of such emotion
Requesting you to stop and listen
To the introduction of
All that I am
All that I could become
Have ever been
Might have ever been
If only
This all worked
On the currency of a smile