Forgive me, I am blind

Let me walk alone though

Please don't mind.

Forgive the taps of my cane too

But leave me to my own device

I have no trouble passing through

Being by myself will suffice.

While you're here, let's talk

Don't go so fast

I can barely walk.

I forgot my name, number, and letters

Perhaps you can help me

Make my walk better.

Do me a favor

Cover your eyes

And step in a room

Don't be surprised

Once you see doom.

Long ago I gave up ignorance

This after I saw it

In the participants

Hardly they knew it.

Please walk fast now

My words may be slurred

But if you don't understand

Don't say a word.

I know you know of what they call me

Nasty words

But ones every child will see.

These words are poison that sharpens

Our eyes

Don't ever repeat them

Or closer you'd die.

Life is a thorny rose

That grows and wilts

Sight is a poisoned rose

That stabs and kills.

Many have died because other's sights have sharpened

Later in the years this idea has lightened.

Well I have only a little more in this race

A race to see what race will start

I have told you and done my part.

I am sad to say that I have lied

Nor am I ill, sick, or evil

I am just color blind.