I wake up and I’m blind it I stare and I’m blinded. I open my eyes to the world and the world takes my eyes rips. The outs leaves my sockets and sphincter is dangling reaching for some lights. I open my eyes because I seek the sun, I fear darkness I fear are the world that does not look kindly upon me I fear looking in upon myself, and finding something unexpected, dangerous, unknowable something that is not from my idea of myself, but from the world, I open my eyes that you could take if you could open the window into my soul. What might you find? If only I could find some glass a mirror divine what’s secret the moon holds every time our gazes meet Sometimes life is good
until it is bad
Until you try to open your eyes
And fines that you have mom
remember why you came here remember who you came for remember who did this? Who did all of it for you? Who brought you to this place who gave you the chance to be yourself? Remember, the magnolias are in bloom remember the way they are silky, pink, then flutter and fall in the wind as a large white dog bounds, rays of sun glancing off his height, and how soft that coat feels how it feels like nothing in the universe could be as soft, except the soft caress to your soul every time you look and meter in the eye remember how the universe was made and made for no one yes, all have the gift of bearing witness to her birth and her life and remember your life that flower unfolding infinitely endlessly upon itself that kaleidoscopic universe within the universe remember your name remember the one you call yourself the one others refer to you as the ones to make you feel shame or pain the ones that seem to uplift you, but really only uplift the sticker the one your mother gave you and the one you found in the Earth the first time you went, checking chasing the glance of the lights flashing off a broken shard of glass, a broken mirror of armor and found yourself found your thumb found your blind eye in India in the earth in soil, looking straight back at you telling you to remember to look to open your eyes and find the multitude staring back