One Eye Blind Poem by Robert Sheridan

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

'2007'