Those Eyes

“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”

― Walt Whitman

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those eyes haunt me

those empty pools of pain

and grief

confused and searching

after 60 years of marriage

60 winters

60 springs

after so much joy

and so much agony

children born

and a child killed

his wife is gone

and he is speechless

except for those eyes

which scream loss

but also

love

a love

that is stronger

than

death