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Barbara Writes
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Submitted by Barbara Writes on 2 February 2008 - 10:22am.| Updated 2 February 2008 - 11:15pm.
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Glaucoma king of the dark
Dims the sight
Like a dimmer switch
Turning down the light
Surgery mighty warrior
Turns up the light
Like a dimmer switch
Opening up the window of the eye
Like storm clouds on a cloudy day
Like the sun behind white cotton clouds
Glaucoma takes you
A place where light never visits
I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back
(3 votes)
Glaucoma
Hope no one has to experience this, it must be terrible!
Good explanation of what it might be like. Good job!
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.
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
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.