THE SECRET WEAPON

love's greatest weapon
is the way they look at you,
sometimes forgetting you
even have flaws, reminding
yourself the bruise you
got from falling all the way
down into someone's arms
whose eyes are so lovely,
so pulchritudinous, so
euphoric. love's greatest weapon
is the way they look at you
when you have nothing
but love to receive even if
it's never fully returned.

love exists somewhere out there for me