OPHTHALMOLOGICAL

We know about sparkling eyes,
dancing eyes, laughing eyes,
and eyes the windows, mirrors,
portals to the soul,

But what about tiny soul creatures
(living secretly)
within each dark
(and private)
eye?

My great-aunt Helen
had a voice like that,
(a voice-within-a-voice),
a Sarah Vaughn voice,
a Vaughn Monroe voice.

Eyes like that,
multidimensional eyes,
(eyes within eyes),
old dark moons
(with new moons in their arms),
(souls within souls).

How could such eyes be?
(Eyes within souls?)
(Souls within eyes?)

Absurd!
Visions of sugarplums dancing, teehee!

But then my eyes
saw those eyes,
and those eyes
saw
me.