~One Eye Blind~

Low creeping thoughts

Inflames my lust; others' goods my envy

Misery is my pity; no one else's intoxicating wealth

Distilled so finely that it can filter through anything

For it does not need blind innuendoes nor broken truths

It can exist free and wild, running from a teary eye to a blind-teary eye

Sometimes it just wants parts of my detached body

Half-libel for repeated errors - thwarting another assassination attempt on myself

One eye blind decisiveness of a person ready to sacrifice their life for a half-obscure cause

The one eye blind conviction - I must do something about other people's inexcusable behavior

And that I may have to do it whether they like it or not

Derives from the assumption that the world is quickly turning to dust

One eye blind to the suffering liberated by decay

Willfully disobeying with feet of clay enthusiasm

Yielding hardness is their very core

Suddenly it seems that all have become one eye blind

Somehow now lost in the consciousness of a mortal danger

How vigilant they are in darkness with one eye blind to light

Forever sacrificing a present to a future good

As only as the one eye blind do of colors

Irrational one eye blind faith, they want to go backwards instead of forward

Believing they're always seen as the best, and scorn a guide for their empire

For there they'll reign, always one eye blind to things deeper than skin deep

One eye blind is the process of leading me gently back to myself - what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Copyright © 2005 Tinka Boukes and Dennis O'Bell