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Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

0 posted 2004-09-12 06:23 PM

The light of day no more can guide you
  but your mended heart is free
         I, with strange hands lead you, teach you
less than you taught me

And while you with eyes beat blank
  when your body lay most dead
The rest of us still lived-
  oblivious to what they did

Your hands so young, still ripe from school
   once wrote tests, rolled cigarettes

Every so oft I see you sigh
  and contemplate your days
Do you think you're just some blind guy?
  ...I'm glad you've come my way

And for the record
being blind doesn't change how smart you are
And being young doesn't affect how old you have to be

ShiningWindHaze
Member

since 2004-09-06

Posts 138
California, United States

1 posted 2004-09-12 06:41 PM

You don't need my input to share.
I loved your expression.
It was so real.

- Haze

Susan
Member Ascendant

since 2004-03-27

Posts 5104
walking the surreal

2 posted 2004-09-12 06:43 PM

What kindness your words speak of, and of insight into the gifts given to us from those we meet-in their uniqueness.

Susan

Happiness isn't something that happens to you, it's created from within you. Joy is a state of mind.

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

3 posted 2004-09-12 07:37 PM

Thanks Haze - I'm glad I could describe my experience in a way that showed its 'realness'

Susan - I'm learning to appreciate people's uniqueness, and that in itself is a special gift to me

Kristabell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-29

Posts 678
Portland, OR

4 posted 2004-09-12 09:13 PM

I am actually visually impaired because I have a bit of usable vision. You have a wonderful expression here. I have been visually impaired all of my life, and I have no idea what it is like to have full sight. However, it does not matter that much because I really have not lost anything. I never had full sight in the first place. It does not change a persons inside. It is just who they are, or who they have become in some cases.

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

5 posted 2004-09-12 10:40 PM

Thanks Kristabell for sharing that. One of his frustrations is being treated differently - like he's not as capable as he is

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

6 posted 2004-09-13 01:54 AM

loved that last verse there

froggy
Senior Member

since 2003-06-23

Posts 1893
Michigan

7 posted 2004-09-14 02:08 AM

Beautiful is all that comes to my mind.

:-)

Copperbell
Senior Member

since 2003-11-08

Posts 956

8 posted 2004-09-14 03:56 PM

Passing Shadows: I think many of us know about that

Thank you froggy

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