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Barbara Writes
Barbara Writes
Feb 02, 2008 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

Glaucoma Sight Snatcher

 

 

Glaucoma king of darkness

Dims my sight

Like a dimmer switch

Turning down the light

 

Surgery mighty warrior

Bring back the light

Like a dimmer switch

Lifting eyes windows

 

Like storm clouds on a cloudy day

The sun behind white cotton clouds

Glaucoma takes you by surprise

A place where light no longer visits

 

 


— Barbara Writes, Feb 02, 2008

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Region, Country: United States, USA

Favorite Poets: Billy Collins, Shakespeare, , Emily Dickinson, , , Whitman, Jess Tapper

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Janice Pearce

Janice Pearce

18 years 4 months ago

Glaucoma

Hope no one has to experience this, it must be terrible! Good explanation of what it might be like. Good job!
Barbara Writes

Barbara Writes

18 years 4 months ago

Thanks Janice

Glaucoma rule in our family. My sight in both eyes saved by surgery on the bad eye just in time. My mom, brother, dad, uncles ,aunts, on my dad side not so fortunate. Its like turning down a dimmer switch until the whole room is dark.
weirdelf

weirdelf

18 years 4 months ago

It is my absolute horror to lose my sight

Beethoven was still able to work deaf, Turner made some of his best painting nearly blind, and I guess I could learn Braille (I have early onset Macular Degeneration but it is not a problem yet). Surely Glaucoma is treatable these days but in the medieval American so-called health system perhaps you can't afford it. A touching poem and thanks for it. Poets can make a difference with awareness raising. Perhaps the non-inevitability of your condition could form a part of your poem? Never be afraid to be political. cheers, Jess
Barbara Writes

Barbara Writes

18 years 4 months ago

Thanks for the kind words

Glaucoma is treatable and blindness can be stoped, but it is most important to do as the doctor advises. I was caught earlier than my family and still have sight in both eyes though little less in left. Surgery turn my dimmer switch back up. No longer dim.