terrypetersen

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision. Helen Keller

Choosing Clothes to Wear to Help a Blind Woman

Why do I linger
in my familiar closet
as I match shirt and pants
for a visit to help a woman
who won’t see me?

A delay? Or
a wish to be more
than I am able to give.

One sigh and an answer
arrives. Be who you are.
Let the sense of fabric
on skin lose importance,

because my friend needs a ballot,
to fill in the blanks,
and sign with an X.

I witness her mark.
She smiles.
“I see the sun all the time,”
she answers, “On the inside.”

From her window I look, and observe
windblown branches swept into
a patch of darkness.

Next question.
Who is ministering
to whom?

written March, 2020