My Eyesight is Abandoning Me

My eyesight is abandoning me

Each year getting more weary

Lens growing thicker and thicker

Bright flashes and tricky flickers

Invisible things floating by

Only captured by my eye

Blinking, squinting, focusing

Sometimes I can’t see a thing

Ghostly images, double vision

Another trip to my Optician

Progressive lens and bifocals

Tough to grab a point of focus

Looking up and looking down

Frustration with my sight breakdown

Glaucoma narrows the visual field

The edge of life gets concealed

Blind spots and retina issues

Leaking tears; pass the tissues

Scratchy, irritated, gravelly eyes

Worse at night and at sunrise

Driving glare; can’t see where

Sometimes it’s just luck and prayer

Lenses scratched, lenses dirty

My entire world gets more blurry

Darkness in my field of view

Growing older; what to do?

Is it my iris, pupil, or retina?

A cloudy lens or cornea?

Distortions and discoloration

Macular degeneration?

I’m looking for a real solution

Some sort of medical evolution

Tiring of looking through a prism

Tired of battling my astigmatism

Examining the many procedures

Reshape the lens with a laser

Implant a lens, like cataracts

Change the way the light refracts

LASIK works if your eyes are young

But not good with older ones

Vision therapy exercises

Claim to regress my nearsightedness

All these choices, what to do?

Before I kiss my sight adieu

My living fear of going blind

More and more, it fills my time

Words would be trapped inside of me

How can I write if I can’t see?

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R J Schwartz

I write about everything and sometimes nothing at all.I'm fascinated by old things, rusty things, abandoned places, or anywhere that a secret might be unearthed.I'm passionate about history and many of my pieces are anchored in one concept of time or another.I've always been a writer, dating back to my youth, but the last decade has been a time of growth for me.I'm continually pushing the limitations of vocabulary, syntax, and descriptive phrasing.

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