Casting Images Before The Blind

How to Join	Member's Area	Private Library	Search	Sanctuary		Login
Main Forums	Discussion	Tech Talk	Mature Content	Archives	A home without a wall, Our haven without ends, A circle we all call Our Family of Friends!

Open Poetry #37

Casting Images Before The Blind

icebox
Member Elite

since 2003-05-03

Posts 4383
in the shadows

0 posted 2006-02-26 04:22 AM

How small people can be,
at times,
I have watched them shrink before my eyes
as if the weight of their own lies
drains life from them;
how frightened some must be,
in life,
to refuse to own the darkness
that resonates as endless mirrored voids
within them.
It is not the fear of death
that triggers desperation;
it is the fear of life
I think.

©2006 by icebox

Kaoru

Member Elite

since 2003-06-07

Posts 3892
where the wild flowers grow

1 posted 2006-02-26 05:41 AM

Lovely, I'd tend to agree.

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

2 posted 2006-02-26 06:46 AM

It's the limbo that gets to me.

Loved the title too, reminded me of a time when I read for a friend who gone blind. I don't think he ever followed a storyline, but he loved the editorials I could not resist adding, so yes, smile, this can be done.

In fact, I believe you just did.

Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

3 posted 2006-02-26 10:18 AM

It's even worse. It is their not realizing -- lacking the equipment or sometimes the inclination, to realize -- that what they're doing, how they are, isn't being alive in the first place.

~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº>
______________Ratleader______________

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2006-02-26 11:10 AM

Falling into the darkness.....and the darkness is actually inside...really, really far inside. It takes desperation to see it.

Your poem is thought-filled!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

5 posted 2006-02-26 02:30 PM

Yes, I understand this write.

iliana
Member Patricius

since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

6 posted 2006-02-26 02:32 PM

"How small people can be,
at times,
I have watched them shrink before my eyes
as if the weight of their own lies
drains life from them;"

Believe you are right on, Mr. C.

...jo

The Lady
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-12-26

Posts 7634
The Southwest

7 posted 2006-02-27 05:27 PM

Dead on target and so well written.

	⇧ top of page ⇧
All times are ET (US). All dates are in Year-Month-Day format.