To sit
To breathe
To think
To live
Just for one instant in time
To give sight to this man with one eye
He sits there waiting
With his woman holding close to his side
This man with one eye
Power – drawn from his very finger tips
Love he has shared
Crippled from outside circumstances must bring
But courageous in his everyday endeavors we
see
With only the black patch to cover this ever
existing lover of humanity
What of power? A bystander may ask,
“What power can a man with one eye bring forthcoming from the past?”
The sense of wisdom – due to he is
abnormality to the naked eye
But to see clear light of day and not judge
false reality in the darkness of the blind
He sits there, into the eve of night to the
dawn of life
With only the day to suit him through time
In that he carries the fate of the world over
his shoulders
Just this man and one eye
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J.A. McGovern self-published his first book, Perception,
which was a compilation anthology with multiple artists of: poetry, short
stories, photography, and art. He co-own an independent film company,
Velocity Films, where they intricate poetry with the films they create.
Poetry is like water, survival ceases to exist without the beauty of self
expression resting within words.
