One Eyed Man

A poem based around the proverb, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man was king."

The land where the man with one eye sleeps

Is covered in people who cannot see

Of course you'd think this man to be king

To view what the rest could only dream

 

The people, full of hate, were quick to decide

That the one-eyed man, so full of sight

was a fake because there was no way to prove

that he could see the sun, stars, and moon

 

He could see the sky, earth, and trees

He could see all the land where he should have been king

But, upon this land were those blinded thieves

Who stole his rank out of envy and greed

 

The man disappeared and found a cave to mend

Where the sun shone not and the darkness was his friend

His sight decayed and he wondered in the end

Just how many one-eyed men there had been.

 

Reviews

[Cliff Rhodes]

This is a nice, thinking, image of what words feel like to the psyche.

[Katseye]

Simply amaizing.

[Mortricia]

Why, thank ya mista.

[Thomas B. Buckman]

This is really cool.