Too Slowly

Please pardon the pun in line 11.

Do you ever feel like giving up?

I have heard you say so, but your eyes--

Your eyes say something else.

I wish it were as simple

As asking how, after 

Your ink and your soul 

Should have been drunk dry

By pitiless papers piled high--

How, when mine have fallen to the floor

Your eyes are still so bright.

You laugh, finding limits

And leave them behind.

Was I ever so tenacious?

I thought so, only--

I thought too slowly.

All my own dim, damp lenses can see, 

In that stark white lined expanse,

Is a darkness, darker than ink, 

And deeper than night.

But your eyes are so bright.

Reviews

[Megan]

Tyler, I love this! I love the contrast between darkness and light, and the message conveyed through the eyes. This is lovely!

[Stormy Weather]

I really enjoy your mixture of commentary and imagery in this. Very nice :)