The Unseeing


Today in I saw a couple walking hand in hand,
he was forty years older than her, she was blind
and loved her old man dearly. If the world went
blind there would be peace and quiet except for
the screams of the new blind people falling down
elevator shafts until they got the hang of it.

Clever as humanity is we would soon have
remote controlled robots to drive tanks in streets,
shooting hole in houses and planes dropping its
cargo of cluster bombs over kinder gardens, and
frightened people running amok and stumbling
over walls built by those who have most to fear.

Peace conference in Vienna, a thousand blind
delegates with their dogs, that’s a lot of crap in
in the boulevard; mind, no one to see the mess.
Mow back to the point, be a good idea for lonely
old man to get a blind girlfriend, preferable one
who hasn’t learnt to read Braille.