the best in me

your eyes lock momentarily with mine

saying "I see your worth"

without a word uttered

believing

validating

my world

with a mirror in a piece of art

conceived so many decades ago

and above all else

truth

I see your truth

your real

without agenda or guise

I see your gifts

you see mine

interwoven a mortar

to life's unwritten wall

the best in us

is created