Her gaze

I leave the place but will be coming back.

She looks at me with a gaze I’ve never seen before.

The complexion of face and colour of her eyes unspoilt.

What messages and meaning passed between us in that split moment? 

I think that a gaze like this could last an infinite time. There is a split second of infinite possibilities. It’s like looking through a black hole and suddenly seeing where everything goes, the world behind this nothingness, and its beautiful as your mind can possibly imagine. 

You pass through the eye journeying deeper on your quest. You’re searching as a bird migrates, in a general direction that you’re 100% certain of, its somewhere in this sea, this expanse of newness and vastness, a blinding light warmth absorbs through your every body and now your swimming. Ahead it is resting there ashore, the white beach approaches and for a split second you see a faint image walking through the surf, it’s you disappearing into the dense jungle. The waves lap the shore but you drift and float gently away, as stars sparkle and joy and energy feels all your senses. Suddenly speed pulls faster than you can resist and you know you were close to a magnificent discovery. Now you are desperate to find out what lives there undiscovered. Impatience and a burning passion fills your body in waves of chemically charged particles and vibrations. Was that you entering, a different person all together or just your imagination?

Not yet you tell yourself but not long before you will journey back. The gaze drops, time restarts, humanity the universe can breath again, cue the sighs. I smile. She smiles. Can I do it? She acknowledges that here is the possibility of a real champion, a suitor of consequence, a challenger, to take on the adventure and at last succeed.