Free verse № 109667
I Love You Mildred Rogers No Matter What
I am supposed to wear glasses, because I canât see.
I am slightly sightless.
Afflicted with a misshapen left eye and a far less right eye.
In the early morning I canât even see the clock or make out the moles on whateverâs lying on my dirty sheets.
In the mid morning I canât even see the middles of my view in the reflection of the rubbed away moist.
I am supposed to wear my glasses all the time, but I donât wear them, because I like the fuzziness and fadedness of what my eyes see when they arenât on.
When I put my glasses on, everyone become a little bit uglier, every thing becomes a little too vivid, every thing is a little too tangible.
With my glasses I can see people from over fifty feet away.
When I donât wear my glasses faces looks a little bit better, because they donât have wrinkles or zits, and the hair on the heads look a little better, because they donât have dandruff or split ends.
I donât have to acknowledge that figure way over there or that thing I am trying to avoid, because I canât see it anyway.
I donât need to see to go on, at least not up here.
Glasses are dumb.
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This person is suppose to not have a grip on reality, the right eye that's "far less" is suppose to signify a lack of morals, the left eye that's misshapen is suppose to represent the action of immorality.
Sort of like that person that thinks someone loves them, even though they find another person's undergarments in the bed or a person that convinces themselves that a 9-5 job answering the phone is fulfilling...simply because it pays the bills.
I was trying to tie in the whole unreliable narrator, symbolism type thing, ok, but apparently I failed...
If you have to explain it, I guess it needs a rewrite.
I need to be able to see what others might see in my work.
(revised because someone pointed out something i might have been implying which i wasn't)
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