Do Not Take Away The Light Poem by Francis Kokutse

Each time l close my eyes,
l experience what the blinds do.
And anytime l enter a dark room,
It tell me what it is like to be blind.

That is why l cherish your light,
it has not only given me hope;
it has given me direction,
anytime all roads seemed blocked.
It is your light that has been
food to me when the famine came
in my life and all the rains of hope failed.

Your light is what l have kept as a life-jacket
in this world's sea of problems and anxiety.
It has been the words that have comforted me
when there was none to say a word to me.

That is why l can only plead with you
to know that there is nothing that
can be of help to me when you
blow out this light of yours.

I see what would happen to me;
My life would become that of a man
who must be guided with an unseen
white-cane, and be laughed out
when l should be given praised.