I Spy

Drawing of red eyes.

“Twas grief enough to think mankind
All hollow, servile, insincere;
But worse to trust to my own mind
And find the same corruption there.”
- Emily Brontë, I Am the Only Being Whose Doom


When I gaze into my eyes
I see cloudy lakes filled
with poignant obsession,

murky shame,
a room as dirty
as the brain of a succubus.

When I look into my eyes
I see dark forests
with chatty branches
dead, reviving itself
through thrill of living
spreading in through its roots.