The Look

As the saying goes, “It is in the eyes where the soul of a person is reflected”, even if someone does not speak you can somewhat see what he is thinking through his looks or stare. We may lie with our words and our actions but not in our eyes. It might have been the most honest organ we can see in our physical appearance, which is directly connected to our heart. Unexpressed emotions can be seen through the eyes of a person. Our eyes could be the window of our soul where our deepest emotions are kept. Emotions that were left unspoken and undone, which were preferred to be kept inside for some reasons we do not know. Staring or looking is an act, which is so powerful that can relay our feelings, which we cannot merely say nor express in our actions. A look can alter emotions. Some people will find their selves fighting just because of a single look or stare from someone they barely know. And for some, they will find their selves falling in love just by a stare.

In this poem the author, Sara, and Colin might have been friends for a long time and secretly a feeling of adoration for each of them had developed through their friendship. It was reflected on how Colin looks at her, his deepest emotions and the hidden love he hardly express. The two may have been separated for a period of time wherein Sara was able to meet new guy friends which later courted her, Strephon and Robin. These two guys were nice ones which she had tried to know much deeper and tried to shift her attention to them.

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,

She entertained these two guys but she realized that she was not able to feel the admiration she felt with Colin. The feeling she had for Colin was really different, which she hardly understood.

Strephon’s kiss was lost in jest,
Robin’s lost in play

Sara could only see in the eyes of Colin his admiration for her and feel in some way the love from Colin for her, in which Colin was not able to confess it directly to Sara.

But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

With those looks, Sara seemed to be puzzled why Colin is not doing something or any step for them to know more of each other. Maybe in her heart there is a hope that one day this guy would as her out and personally will tell her what does all those looks for and why he seemed to have a hard time in saying it.

But the kiss in Colin’s eyes
Haunts me night and day.


This poem emphasizes how one can be so affected by a look or a stare from someone special. It can served as one’s inspiration or a distraction depending upon the other acts done by the one looking and the response by the one being stared.