Through New Eyes

This poem is about a change for the better. It's about someone or something that impacted your life so much that now you see and feel like you never have before.

The sun is shining like it has before,

But I’ve never seen it like this.

Through unchanged eyes I gaze out onto a world that is new.

It’s as though for the first time, I see it.

I see the beauty.

The sheer beauty of this planet that is so simple yet so complex…

How have I missed it?

How much time have I wasted peering through blindness?

Too much, that is certain.

And not only do I see, I feel.

I feel the grass beneath my toes comforting me from the hard earth below.

I feel the breeze caress my skin and carry my petty worries away with its leaving.

I feel alive.

Alive!

And I want to feel everything… For time is fleeting.

I want to feel this happiness… I want to feel pain…

I want to feel everything because in a split second I could feel no more.

And I want to know that if I were to die,

To leave this Earth, to leave this world,

That I would know.

I would know the pure beauty, that I would feel all the raw emotions,

That I didn’t die blind.

And a lot of people do.

But I refuse to be one of them.

I will depart knowing the brilliant confusion of being alive,

And I will cherish everything.

Thanks to you.

Reviews

[Jamestown]

Fantastic write! I felt this way after I gave my life to Christ!
Colors became brighter, sounds sweeter, etc...
I can totally relate! Thanks for sharing and b-blessed!

[Spirit]

Thanks for the kind words! Hope you're having a happy and beautiful day :)