Hazel Eyes

by Dannica Mitchell

You left me. 

How could you leave me? 

I have your beautiful hazel eyes, 

soft green with brown near my pupils. 

Every time someone says, “You have such wonderful eyes,” 

I think of you. 

I think about how you left me, 

how you looked at your baby girl, 

and walked through that door. 

You never looked back, 

never called, 

never asked how I was doing. 

Now you walk through that door again, 

put a bandage on the wound you left on my heart, 

but I turn away. 

These hazel eyes don’t think of you anymore, Father. 

These beautiful hazel eyes can see the man my mother came to love. 

He’s got the same eyes, 

a man who has always loved me like his own. 

The one who adopted me and kept me safe. 

I have his beautiful hazel eyes, not yours, 

the one who walked through that door. 

Dannica Mitchell ‘24 is a psychology major. She has been writing poetry for a long time and is excited to have her work published!