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Okay Prosers, this challenge is very close to my heart. I was talking to one of my dear friends the other day who is blind. She never complains about it and is always laughing and a ray of sunshine but on this day she confessed that she was feeling down. "It's just darkness all the time," she said. Said it twice. Her words cut me to the core. I wanted to say something, anything by way of empathy, but mostly I wanted to paint her sight back somehow. Calling all painters, poets, and word magician
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Mowo in Poetry & Free Verse

Imagine the deepest of pain.. 

Imagine the sharpness of a knife, add the sound of it cutting something to give it more effect, the feel of a little cut on your finger...

Imagine the heat of the sun...

thats what the colour red looks like

Go outside and stand in the cold for a bit...

the feeling of sadness?...

its the color blue 

When you have a laugh touch your lips from side to side.... 

imagine a girl spinning in a pretty dress outside in a flower field out in the sun...

its probably what yellow looks like 

The things that can fill-in the darkness my love are the sound and feel and smell and the taste the world has to offer for the memories that sight offers fades quickly. 

Let the sounds of the world and music accompany your mind to places that only it can.

let your skin tell you what only touch can.

let your nose stimulate the cells in your brain. 

Listen to your heart at every feeling that it sends to your entire being good and bad, Joy and Pain. 

heighten all your sense never live a normal day! never get familiar with the way you live! 

Explore all your other senses, eat food you've never tried before and feel your soul with the exotic smell .

Appreciate the slightest tingle on your skin, the slightest mass on your finger tips. 

Take time out to listen to every single instrument and pitch, every tune, flow, beat and the words ... the words that come from what happens in the darkness of someone else's mind. Because out of the darkness can come so much life!

For I remember the way I felt when he touched me more than what his face looks like... his face will change but the feeling will not.

I remember the words and the melody and harmony of that song that amplified the way I felt. 

I crave that chocolate bar and the smell of that cheesy pizza because ice cream is death to sadness.  

We close our eyes and long to stay in the darkness when we kiss... when we pray... when we listen to songs that go strength to our hearts because the best things in life are things that we can not see...