True lovers stare into their lover's eyes,
could stand thus forever, not long enough.
Friends instead stand as we do, side by side,
staring at the sea from our favorite bluff,
your eyes not on me but where my eyes are:
the blue rolling tides, the red fading sun.
No strung nerves or hormones to interfere.
Just two friends in love with the horizon,
companions delighting in the same view,
gazing together at the same beauty.
My friend, my peace, my only solitude,
my brief escape from life's insanity,
Would I want to turn away if I tried,
just once, to turn and look you in the eye?
"Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest." ~ C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves