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
136 reads
Feel Me
Color is a waste of an ability;
We humans can't even agree
On blue and black or white and gold
Is it aquamarine, or blueish-green?
Sight, is a waste.
So many creatures use the cool stuff.
Sonar, eco-location, vibrations.
Maybe what we have really isn't good enough.
Why can't you just feel me?
Don't you love the tension in the air
As two lovers approach; their pulse is heard.
Tingles, chills, all down your spine so bare.
Feel me seeing red,
hear me talking a blue streak.
My anger is boiling hot, can you feel it?
Feel the clench of my teeth as I speak.
All of the best feelings you can't even see.
They are metaphysical, so just hold on to me.
Love is best made in the dark anyways.
When the senses, enhanced, set us free.