smile – Letters of Measure

Those things we come to look forward to,

How Your Eyes Search For Mine

By Tyler Lucas Mobley

How your eyes search for mine whenever you smile,

sends my heart away then I have to chase it back. Home

in sight after 7 years at sea, treasures spill onto shore.

Puts a loudspeaker to the statue of David’s internal dialogue.

When our eyes meet, lifetimes play out in the brevity.

How your eyes search for mine whenever you smile,

makes me the path of butterfly migration, an edge

where water falls, places me on cusp of day, I’m carried

around the world, passing hellos to pageant humanity.

I’d know they were coming, and be glad when they did,

how your eyes search for mine whenever you smile.

When you said so, with me forever.

Impressions…

To Be in your Thoughts

By Tyler Lucas Mobley

Don’t know how I got here, but I’m happy to stay,

make myself comfortable, dance around and play.

Was it something I said that popped me in your head?

Nice of you to have me, you really didn’t have to,

all the ways of wishing, sure did bring us true. Love

when you have me over, feel I could stay awhile,

best part of being here is getting to watch you smile.

And when the children ask, ‘were you like this when

you were young?’ We’ll only momentarily interrupt

our impressions of sizzling shrimp to ask with

condescension what is meant by ‘were young,’ then

straight back on the barbie we’ll go. I play the harmonica

between your legs, lost in enchanted song. A realized

seat upon the piano bench of time, always playing

for as long as you are mine. Throughout your darling

days my little whispers tickle as they trace your wings

with the morning dew we once knew. As you tread the

garden of your golden hour mind, find me tiling away,

tending with love the fruits thereof.