"A Certain Kind of Blindness"

I have a certain kind of blindness   
   a condition that gets stronger with each passing year.
One that my eye doctor
   can’t detect
   nor is able to describe,
   let alone bill for . . .

You see,
   when I see someone
   I see their Soul.
Timeless
   Unencumbered
      Omnipresent.
Devoid of
   age, race, or status.

What I don’t see as easily is their
   Personality.
Their current vehicle of transport in
   Current Reality.
Eye / Ee :
   Their level of Awareness.

Coated in the Present
   Coded in the
Generations of
   Not-knowing . . .
Only an uneasy sense
   of square pegs that won’t
   fit in
   round holes.

One should not confuse one for the other,
   any more than one should stare into the Sun
   to achieve
   Enlightenment.

But clearly
   I need new sunglasses
   to handle my
   Certain Kind of Blindness. 

     

 

March 2023

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