• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
Diaspora Dialogues

Diaspora Dialogues

Supporting new fiction, poetry, and drama

Donate

Social Links Widget

  • Our Programs
    • Mentorship
    • Professional Development
    • TOK Magazine
    • FAQs
  • Our Writers
    • Mentors
    • Mentees
    • Success Stories
  • News & Events
    • Events
  • About Us
    • Our Team
    • The Board
    • Our Allies
    • Contact Us

Blind Man View

dd
Shelbey Hernandez
November 5, 2012
Share Tweet Share

What is it that a blind man sees?

Without his sight, does it make him free?

After all how can he get hurt if he can’t witness pain,

How can he love if he can’t see what love contains?

Fingers upon curvatures, a choice to see what’s bad

Not knowing the difference between what he has and what he had

Because if he can’t see what’s come and what’s left him behind

Then he doesn’t know a piece is missing, not wishing to rewind

But if he can’t see the bad, how will he be secure?

Read a face with fingertips but someone’s heart he can’t be sure?

So what exactly does a blind man see?

Blots of colour, or a smudge spree?

Does he see any outlines, or nothing at all?

Discoloured pupils, running into walls.

But when blinded, all other senses increase so much more

So I guess he sees much better than he ever did before

PreviousNext

Filed Under: November 2012, Shorthand Tagged With: poetry, Shelbey Hernandez, Shorthand

Footer

Our Programs

  • – Mentorship
  • – Professional Development
  • – TOK Magazine
  • – FAQs

Our Writers

  • – Mentees
  • – Mentors
  • – Success Stories

News & Events

  • News
  • Events

About

  • – Our Team
  • – Board of Directors
  • – Our Allies
  • – Contact Us

Donate Now
Top