{"sf1_id":550843,"sf2_id":"znJ3LZ31","title":"Eyes Open","author":"Rogal Ursus","words":235,"posted_at":"2013-06-14T06:39:00.000Z","tags":["Poetry","insomnia"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/550843-eyes-open","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/znJ3LZ31","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/21/aa/21aa5373-7763-455f-9d08-4b91915cf8b6","description":"#3 of Poetry\n\nSomething I wrote during a bout of insomnia.","content":" **Eyes Open**\n\nWe are born, new to the world, without a care to think of.\n\nVery soon, we open our eyes and gaze upon the world around us.\n\nWe grow , learning, failing, trying, crying, hurting.\n\nWe age, celebrate the highs and weep during the lows.\n\nWe fall in love, we fall out of love\n\nWe might at one point find \"the one\" and never let them go\n\nWe make a life, with a house, a car, pets, and maybe children\n\nWe go through the highs and lows again\n\nThe sleepless nights, the endless days\n\nThe jobs, the college, and maybe a career, and maybe retire\n\nLive our lives with that \"one\"person until\n\nThey leave us, in one way or another\n\nWe hurt, we cry, we try to move on, sometimes unsuccessfully\n\nBut we never close our eyes till it all ends\n\nThe problem is that sometimes, we never really open our eyes and see what is going on around us. We sometimes miss the things that are most important to us. It could be that one opportunity for success, the one time to spend with family we might not see for several years, or even \"the one\". We must always keep our eyes open and to listen to the cues that come our way. Because if we miss them, we will never get our chance again. And then, we close our eyes for good.\n\n  \n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/532706-the-box.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/553318-defenses-down.json"}}