Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of child sexual abuse, antigay bias, substance use, illness, death, and sexual content.

In Eden Streit’s poem, she wonders if looking into someone’s eyes can tell her if they are lying.

Eden knows that some people never find love. She feels lucky, although she knows that she has found love “with the wrong person” (2).

Eden clarifies that her boyfriend, Andrew, is only wrong for her parents. She knows that when Andrew holds her, she feels safe.