![]() To Be Blind, Yet DreamA Poem by David O Whalen (O Haolin in Celtic)![]() It's of dreaming blindly![]() To be blind
And yet to dream… At first glance a contradiction It would seem to be A wondrous relief From unending dark… At least to the sighted It would seem to be But alas…the blind Dream only of darkness And know not of light It would seem to be Their dreams consist Of sounds and sensations Feelings, emotions, Yet are completely light-free The dreams of the blind Unlike yours and mine Are without colour, or depth Without height or breadth Yet they dream …Beautiful dreams… Of imagined flowers, of Fairyland towers Of the scent and the feel Of the wind and the rain Of the hot feel of lust… And the cool onset of dusk Yet they do indeed dream And are happy it seems In an imaginative land …Of blind dreams… {footnote} People who are blind from birth usually dream in the sense of this poem, while people who Suffer blindness early in life dream as we do (colours and all), but the faces, places and things in Their dreams are forever fixed in time. Things never change and faces never age, so their loved ones Stay young forever! (unfortunately, so do their not-so-loved ones) © 2013 David O Whalen (O Haolin in Celtic) |
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1 Review Added on April 12, 2013 Last Updated on April 12, 2013 Author![]() David O Whalen (O Haolin in Celtic)Las Vegas, NVAboutBorn in Kentucky, teen years in Loveland Ohio, old in age, young in mind, I'm not human, I don't believe in religion, love. faith or trust, I do believe in: lil' kids, ol' dogs, leprechauns, and water.. more..Writing
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