Compliments Please

I told you I liked your new glasses

and you touched the plastic

at the bridge of your nose and smiled.

I wear glasses sometimes and someone

I didn't know well once said you should wear

your glasses more often so I started

wearing my glasses more often

and I don't get get many compliments

because none of us do, not really,

not when you consider how many things

we do every day, all the clothes in our drawers

and wardrobes have been carefully chosen 

and we try so hard for so long every day

more hard than any of us really give

ourselves credit for and we are able

to give that feeling, to pinpoint something

you like about someone and tell them.

Eyes get far too much credit.

All of us have got nice eyes.

Look at them. They're so beautiful

but you do. You have beautiful eyes

and you look nice in your glasses.