Eyes Gleaming in the Consuming Pain

Eyes brimming dreams

Like mine long ago

Smiley with happiness so blind

High in hopes for an ambivalent future

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Eyes so beaming it shadows diamond

Ignorant to its suffering

Full of loving pearls

Eyes, I once possessed

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Eyes round like sweet chestnuts

Elated for the little it retains

In a continent of paucity

Eyes gleaming in the consuming pain.

By Daniella Djiogan