emotional blindness - a poem

I wrote this simple poem about the times in life when someone you love is unable to see the beauty that life has to offer them. You are so desperately wanting to show them a rainbow of colour and break through their anger, their grief, or their bitterness, but all you can do is be patient with them and hold on to that beauty on their behalf, believing they will be able to see if for themselves again one day.

emotional blindness, you can’t see the colours
i’m holding a rainbow but its really no use
the reds and the yellows, a sunset of passion
the blues and the purples, my hearts deepest hues
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i wish i could show you the beauty around you
and lift those thick scales of anger away
but all i can do is hold on to this rainbow,
until you are able to see it some day.
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how lovely the day when your eyes finally open
i will be standing there smiling at you
and you will know that i always believed
your eyes would one day see these colours anew.

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by: Amber

2006