What's it like to be Deaf or Blind?
Is there a total abscence of sense,
Or a confused muddle
Of which the brain
Simply can not make sense?
I looked at his cane,
And Coke bottle bottom glasses,
And I thought of extreme focus
That only made the eye's strange blurs
Just a fraction more sure...
If the brain has so much garbage
Fed into it by distorted
Eyes and ears -
What a challenge, then,
To try to create
The external world
Inside the mind.
Who's to say, though,
That there's any sensory input -
After all, there could be
Horrible damage to the nerves
Leading to silence or darkness
Or nothing left
Where once there was plenty.
Would it be better to
Never sense at all,
Or to have tasted
The sights and sounds so sweet,
And now be left
With...?
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