I look into your eyes
for five seconds
and we both now
that if we look to each-other
for five seconds more,
Everything would crumble
Everything would fall.

But as I turn my head away
I find both of us smiling silently
that the “five more seconds”
Never happened!

Maybe someday
It will happen
Or maybe will come the day
We won’t even share
A “five seconds” look.

Until things fall to their places,
We both know that
Sometimes,
Only sometimes,
Five seconds mean eternity!
(maybe it’s better the way it is!)

©Fiori Dalipi