The invaders are gone

they left their blue eyes

affixed to buildings as white as their skin

to watch over the new residents

and to wink at the sea, making its waves bow down before the prospect of new invaders.

the villagers, never found user’s guides to these houses

_nor instructions to help them repair the damages

so they resorted to old ancestral ways:

they started to tear out those eyes

one after another

replacing them with wooden ones _the color of their eyes

sometimes hiding them

behind the washing or thick curtains

like a pirate hiding his own missing eye.