If I paste my eyes on your hands,
Will you let them peek 
into the spring garden you 
built over the mountain?
Will you let them see 
the poems you write, 
only to feed the little match boxes?
Will you hold them 
close to your heart to 
protect them from summer wind?
Will you guide them through 
your insane inferno
where shadows dance and 
moonbeams are caught?
Will you make them understand 
what a blind spot is, 
when the prayer is chanted 
by the predator?
Will you let them witness 
the birth of  a dawn,
when an unnamed insect 
decides to die out of curiosity?
Will you share with them 
the whispers of martyr god,
while the wind carries 
the secrets of longevity?
Will you keep them out of a battle 
between a shegnai and a gun, 
where number of pyres 
is the ultimate power?
Will you let them weave 
safe sentences in an abstract pattern, 
so that no body will be 
displeased of their courage?
Will you lock them in your 
post orgasmic gaze, 
while you recollect the laws of 
gravity, trying not to scare yourself?
Will you teach them to 
play skipping rope, so that 
they won't be afraid of 
snakes and suicides?
Will you keep them away 
from a well rehearsed con man,
who may find them 
bleak and funny?
Will you gift them an umbrella 
when its drenching rain and 
a soft tissue paper when 
they are raining?
Will you forgive them 
for the sins they are concealing, 
afraid of the loss of love 
gliding through your fingers?
Will you sing for them 
in rhyming words, promising 
not to abandon them 
in the middle of a sea storm?
Will you shelter them from 
elastic hearts and plastic teeths, 
wearing hoods of diamond hopes 
in a seculded parking space?
Will you teach them 
the trick to  breathe underwater, 
when the rage of monsoon 
stings the pride of fire?
Will you make them 
understand your solitude, 
intoxicating enough to 
give them a foolish courage.
Will you grip them, lightly, 
without ripping their dreams
of keeping your smile 
as an evocation?
Will you accept 
their grateful defeat, 
for they know 
how I melt in 
your messy embrace?

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