Blue Blue Eyes

The line up at the movie theatre is long.

And the rain crosses

the scene in diaganol lines.

that's when I saw her

so frail painfully thin and cold.

her face had been pretty once.

she still had the most beautiful blue eyes.

almost too big for her now gaunt features

she carried a sign

two children and homeless please help.

I recognized her as she got closer

I had seen her a week ago

at the bus station in town.

Then her sign read

cold and hungry please help.

someone threw a handfull

of loose change at her feet

she knelt down hurriedly

trying to pick up

every single coin.

I had only twenty dollars on me.

But suddenly the movie banner

with George clooney and

Catherine zeta Jones

smiling down at me

lost its apppeal.

I thrust the note into her hands.

she looked at me with her blue blue eyes.

Then i had to walk home

in the rain as fast as I could.

For I had an overwhelming urge

to hug my teenage daughter.

and tell her I loved her.