Your Eyes Go Sad

Your eyes go sad.

You're

Listening to what I say.

They doze, dream, fade out.

Not listening.

I talk away.

I tell what I've told, out of

Sadness, so often before…I think you never listened,

So you're away you are.

All of a sudden, an

Stare, you look at me,

Immeasurably distant,

You begin a smile.

I go on talking.

Go on listening - your

Thoughts you listen to,

The smile as good as gone,

Until, through the

Afternoon's waste of while,

The silence

Of your useless smile.