Brown Eyes

magnetic and mysterious

BROWN EYES

Photo by Denio Rodríguez on Unsplash

These brown eyes evoke sadness
Impenetrable obsidian mirrors
Capture the stain of the emotion in glass
Frozen there, opaque and bottomless.

They penetrate to the heart
Razor sharp scalpels
Extracting sympathy
Impart an inescapable plea.

Enticing in their obscurity
They lure the gaze of the onlooker
Magnetic and mysterious  
Questioning, they send chills
Tingling down the spine.

Hard with anger, they repel a glance
With a piercing stare they punish
Foreclosing attention and interest
Intimidating the supplicant.

With love, they soften
Pupils indistinct and misty
Sweet as warm maple syrup
They bend the beloved to acquiesce.

Desire burns smokey 
Hot coals glow, subdued,
Smoldering embers
Disguise the urge to pounce.
©2026 Stephanie M. Vargo