rest inside your eye
escape through a wink
reflected on the stairs
as they're passing by
and don't you think for a
second the test you or I
would make them blink or
even take them beyond
the sovereign halls for
a reckoning, realizing
themselves in the sky;
instead, they'd fall as
stowaways in a teardrop
carefully placed inside
a hidden oasis under
the sands of your face