Challenge
Okay Prosers, this challenge is very close to my heart. I was talking to one of my dear friends the other day who is blind. She never complains about it and is always laughing and a ray of sunshine but on this day she confessed that she was feeling down. "It's just darkness all the time," she said. Said it twice. Her words cut me to the core. I wanted to say something, anything by way of empathy, but mostly I wanted to paint her sight back somehow. Calling all painters, poets, and word magician
The Blind Seer
I am blind
Darkness my companion
All the time
I may not see
The azure blue
Of sky and sea
But I smell green
In rain soaked grass
Washed summer clean
I may not view
The velvet rose's
Scarlet hue
But I can taste
The purple storm
Feel North blow on my face
I cannot gaze
Into your amber eyes
Through this opaque haze
But I can hear
Your heartbeat
Singing in my ear
Unhindered by temporal sight,
My heart perceives immortal
Beyond this fog of night
The melodies I hear
Paint views I alone can see
Those depths inside of you
Because blind, I am a Seer
Written in honor of the blind and “disabled” who've taught me to see and feel.
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