Brown Eyes Have A Hard Time Saying Goodbye Poem by Carol Fleming Klein

Brown Eyes Have A Hard Time Saying Goodbye



Brown eyes
have a hard time saying goodbye

A light in them continues to shine
Even when all the words
have been said

Brown eyes
Have a hard time saying goodbye.

February 2,1987

Sunday, February 9, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: loss
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
This intriguingly mixed metaphor was my immediate response to the break up of a long standing relationship. I think it evokes the shock I was feeling. And a certain reality of relationship. One can not turn off love in an instant, or banish history. The light that would not go out but lingered.
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Carol Fleming Klein

Carol Fleming Klein

Stoneham, Massachusetts
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