You have known me for only a couple of years yet

You know me more than myself

Your eyes can read me like a child’s picture book

With lucid illustrations well described

In colour and simple language legible and unambiguous

The slight change in expressions fleeting in the eyes

Even when veiled with brittle silence or a ready smile

Are read by by you with complacent ease

As if you are my other half privileged with

A peep at my innermost thoughts

If I dislike a thought but refrain to express

You know with the slightest nuance of expression

A lost gaze of contemplation reveals my worry

A stifled yawn of boredom my disinterest

A tightlipped nod my acquiescence under duress

A smile swallowed some secret mirth yet unshared

A twinle in the puil or a glare malevolence

A shimmer in the eyes like pool of emotion

A softness in the stern look of anger

Some hidden soft corner of the soul

The subtle nuances those ingnored or unseen

By others supposedly close and dear to the heart

Are read like abook by your discerning gaze of nonchalance

You are my soulmate as your eyes reveal

My other half that knows me through and through

Someone connected to me by the cord of love

A cosmic connection never to be severed in life…