Eyes Like the Ocean

she had eyes like the surface of the sea
from deep underwater,
a watery green of love and loss
broken only by the shafts of sunlight
spearing down from the other side

she had eyes like a hurricane over the ocean,
a stormy gray-green maelstrom
found swirling with raging winds
and churning with the great swells of the sea

she had eyes like the deepest waters
as seen from above,
a dark green that disappears into blackness
filled with a world so unexplored
it is refuge for wanderers and terror for cowards