A delicate dance

Quiet steps

Averted eyes

Silent hellos

And awkward goodbyes

Shuffled feet

Fidgeting hands

Wobbly knees

Hard to stand

Flushed cheeks

Mind goes blank

Panic sets in

And I run away

Tears in my eyes

At my foolish self

But maybe another opportunity will present itself

Grey clouds

casting nothing but darkness

over my eyes.

Shadows forming

as a depressing

disguise.

Then your smile appeared

and it was

the most color I'd seen

since all my happiness

disappeared.

Cliché? Perhaps,

but throughout all this time

no other has made me wish

for a recaps.

Your understanding eyes

are burned

into my mind,

but I'm thankful for the beauty

cause before I was truly blind.

Your moistened wrist

punctured with broken glass

Beautiful red

Forever stained

Your moistened cheeks

Etched in pain

Beautiful streaks

Forever stained

Your moistened lips

Kissed by Death's ink

Beautiful reminder

Forever stained