How can blind men see?
What
noble things can come to broken men,
whose former dreams lay shattered all around?
Incapable of being fixed again
in their own minds, having run themselves down?
Suspicious of any positive thing
that sheer happenstance, or by fate’s Decree,
or gift some sympathetic God may bring,
downplaying it all because he can’t see
the worth he may hold to others like him,
in the simplest things that he may do,
that lightens the dark, and lessens the grim
and gives others the strength to push on through…
They’ll rebuild themselves, and reclaim their lives,
by showing them themselves through others’ eyes!
whose former dreams lay shattered all around?
Incapable of being fixed again
in their own minds, having run themselves down?
Suspicious of any positive thing
that sheer happenstance, or by fate’s Decree,
or gift some sympathetic God may bring,
downplaying it all because he can’t see
the worth he may hold to others like him,
in the simplest things that he may do,
that lightens the dark, and lessens the grim
and gives others the strength to push on through…
They’ll rebuild themselves, and reclaim their lives,
by showing them themselves through others’ eyes!
© Jeremy L. Heath, 2025. All rights reserved
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