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Those eyes.

Those steel-gray eyes.

Piercing right through me.

Past my soul.

Past any dream or nightmare, I have ever encountered.

A silent wind that hits you straight to your bones before you sense it.

Those silent caresses, sending chills up and down your spine.

Leaving a trail of goosebumps, scattering over every part of your body, mind and soul.

Those eyes.

A deadly promise lies within them.

The darkest sensations, the most damning hold that you cannot break away from.

Pain mixed with pleasure drowning you, pulling you slowly towards the quiet peaceful death that awaits.

kicking and screaming but no words or sounds make surface.

It’s here that I stand, paralyzed.

From one look.

One glance that held a second too long.

One heartbeat that pounds like a bass in my eardrums.

One breath I keep forgetting to inhale.

Time slows.

The world blurs around me.

It’s as if my soul has been jolted awake from a darkened endless sleep.

Where I am reborn.

Reborn to a gaze that quickly, but gently, grips at my guarded heart.

Those walls I built so high, crumble at the sight.

It’s in that moment where I know my life has been completely altered. That one moment was all it took. That one look. I will be forever damned and owned by those steel-gray eyes.