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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

Diploetry in Poetry & Free Verse

Let There Be Light!

I had been to places

Where darkness reigned

But only for a time

Til light exploded

And all the dark dispelled

I'd sojourned in a sun-less universe

Broken, Beleagured, Blind

I waged my war against demons dark

The joy muggers

The veil upon life's glorious art

I have also known the joy of angels

Dispensing peace and calm

To my sightless being

In havens darkness dare not be

I have known brilliance untold

I have known the dark of the moon

How it pales in contrast

To the radiance

Of the stars of my fashion

Though blind, my world so bright

I will not be held captive

By the tentacles of gloom

I break free into the light within

Truly, my senses have flown

Vivid fancy sets me free.

To Your Friend, @tatteredthread:

"May the God of Light reveal that which eyes can't"

-Diploetry.