Eye

I promise I won't kill you. Well, not now.
You can go your ways in peace, for all of me.
I never thought I'd do this: I'll allow
You to go on in relative safety.
There's something here that cuts against the grain:
I ought to be more menacing than this.
But still, for now, I'm planning to refrain
And give the chance of hurting you a miss.
That's not how I imagined this would go;
I thought that I was always dangerous.
But sometimes it is better to go slow
And now is such a time; it's obvious.
But come back later, and I promise you
What I just said will no longer be true.