Watched

I watched from three places
on his wall
through the golden eyes
of three feline women
three painted portraits

I watched them, and she
especially she
would look back at me
surveying my surreal features
amid a fantasy landscape
and the bird that hovers near my lips

I watched their dancing bodies
understand each other
I heard their whispered words of love
rolling out across the night

Their contrasting skin
an echo
of their divided minds
laid temporarily to rest