Can I ask where you look in a conversation?
Is it down towards the ground, or up at the sky?
Is it off to the side, or off in the distance?
Maybe at a bird, or a specific object?
Is it unfocused in a general direction
Or is it zeroed in like a telescope
Studying intently every minute detail
Of a subject of interest gaining attention?
Is there a blank stare, with eyes glossed over?
Are their quick glances in every direction?
Perhaps, the focus on the body it is
Or on a rare occasion, maybe even the face?
Why do we look around almost everywhere
Dodging and skirting the most important place
Avoiding the eyes most uncomfortably
Almost ashamed if a connection we make?
If the eyes, the gateway to the soul they are
If to know thine own soul is to know another’s
And if to know another’s is to know thine own
What does it mean if their eyes we avoid?
–Jason Westlake
Mon., November 13, 2006
