Innocence. Happiness. Love. Joy. Peace.
People say, "Eyes are the window to a persons soul." So many things can be seen in a persons eyes.
It's fall, slightly nippy but exactly what this young girl lives for. Her mother calls, asking if she was ready to be picked up from her friends house, she says no, that she loves this weather and she'll walk home. Her mother agrees to let her but tells her to be careful.She promises she will be and leaves her friends home, with her iPod in her ears and a smile so innocent it melts your heart. She steps onto a side road for a shortcut she knows, smiling as she steps on the fallen leaves, inhaling the scent of the decomposing foliage. She pauses for a moment, something isn't right, her stomach is twisting, she can't place it but feels she needs to get back on the road.
As she turns to take the main road she bumps into someone. She apologizes and tries to go around him, but he grabs her shoulder. She looks into his eyes, and a sense of dread fills her. His eyes, something isn't right, there was a look of hatred, pain, lust, and black in his eAyes. She feels like she Can see his soul, it makes her cringe, he grabs her shoulders harder dragging her away from the street light. Into the dark. Where he does the unthinkable.
She runs home, directly into her bathroom. She cries, and looks in the mirror her face is scratched and bleeding. She turns on her shower, as hot as she can stand and steps under the water, scrubbing herself until her skin is red; trying to get him out of her skin. Once in her pajamas, faced cleaned she crawls under her blankets and tries to sleep, but her dreams are littered with images of this man, she silently cries again, crying until she aches. Finally she cries herself into an un-restful, fitful sleep that last until until dawns first light.
She goes into her bathroom and looks at herself, she feels different, she looks different, she looks as though the light from her soul has been extinguished. She has changed, she in no longer the young girl who lights up the people she is around, she is now a young woman who has been hurt, taken advantage of, crushed and extinguished. Her eyes are no longer bright. She is now hiding a secret.
When you look in her eyes, you no longer see peace, love, joy, and innocence. Now you see Pain. Hate. Hurt. Darkness. Ill-Advised Seduction.
What do you see when you look into someones eyes? Do you see Innocence, love, and happiness? Or do you see Pain, darkness, and hatred?
Before you judge someone, look at their eyes, try to see their story, try and look into their heart and soul.
