Low creeping thoughts <br />Inflames my lust; others' goods my envy <br />Misery is my pity; no one else's intoxicating wealth <br />Distilled so finely that it can filter through anything <br />For it does not need blind innuendoes nor broken truths <br />It can exist free and wild, running from a teary eye to a blind-teary eye <br />Sometimes it just wants parts of my detached body <br />Half-libel for repeated errors - thwarting another assassination attempt on myself <br />One eye blind decisiveness of a person ready to sacrifice their life for a half-obscure cause <br />The one eye blind conviction - I must do something about other people's inexcusable behavior <br />And that I may have to do it whether they like it or not <br />Derives from the assumption that the world is quickly turning to dust <br />One eye blind to the suffering liberated by decay <br />Willfully disobeying with feet of clay enthusiasm <br />Yielding hardness is their very core <br />Suddenly it seems that all have become one eye blind <br />Somehow now lost in the consciousness of a mortal danger <br />How vigilant they are in darkness with one eye blind to light <br />Forever sacrificing a present to a future good <br />As only as the one eye blind do of colors <br />Irrational one eye blind faith, they want to go backwards instead of forward <br />Believing they're always seen as the best, and scorn a guide for their empire <br />For there they'll reign, always one eye blind to things deeper than skin deep <br />One eye blind is the process of leading me gently back to myself - what is essential is invisible to the eye. <br /> <br />'2007'<br /><br />Robert Sheridan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-eye-blind/
