Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. It's a Cyborg poem! Woooooo! I have to say, I absolutley LOVE Cyborg. I've given it a lot of thought, and I'm pretty sure if I could know one Titan in real life it would be him. It's not to say he's my favorite (please don't ask me to choose!), but he's the sweetest, most loyal, smartest, best guy out there. There's only like 1/100 fics about him, too. And it makes me sad. :-( So here's one about our favorite half-man half-robot!
Disclaimer: I have nothing.
The one thing he misses more than anything
More than his hands or his feet or his torso
Is his eye
When he shuts off his left eye he can see it all
He can see his friends and his home and his city
But that's just it- his eye doesn't close, it shuts off
And that is not normal
And it hurts to know that the only way he can see normally is by doing something not normal
When he closes his right eye he can see everything he couldn't see before
He can see numbers and statistics and heat
And while it's helpful to have that information while fighting villains…
It's not normal
And it hurts that when he does something normal it leads to something not normal
He has seen his friend's eyes
He has seen Beast Boy's green eyes find laughter in even the darkest moments
He has seen Raven's violet eyes find darkness in even the lightest moments
He has seen Starfire's eyes find joy in even the smallest of good fortunes
He has seen Robin's eyes, even through the mask, find fault in even the best of circumstances
And he has seen that, more than their posture or voices or body language
Their eyes reveal more about their feelings than anything else
And he knows that that can never be for him
He can never express himself in a longing glance, or a hard stare, or a lustful gaze, or a surprised gape
It's the one thing he misses more than anything
More than his fingers or his toes or his stomach
And it's only an eye
And he knows it's never coming back