Paralyzed

I beheld your eyes and I was enslaved
In this tide of feelings my heart is at stake
You smiled and the world sighed in raptures
My soul, my being you unknowingly captured.

Silence is the language of a timd heart
Unspoken words remain in my refuge, my rampart
You are the heavens that gleam in twilight
To be in your presence I would surely flight.

Those eyes so dear now rest on someone
The joy... the fire... all smoldered and gone
This heart that hardened and lost its tenderness
To be paralyzed of love will be my sickness.