Username: Mara.
Name: Colette
Gender: Female
Poem:
A common misconception.
Blind people see in black and white,
but that is just not right.
So I must make a correction,
what I see is the absence of light,
to tell whether it is day or night.
No, I cannot see colors.
How could I when I don't know what they are?
What I can see is darkness,
but it's not all that bad.
I don't know the colors of the floor or the door,
I can't tell if they're near or far.
Although, I do want to address,
the fact that I'm still not sad.
You probably think that it's just a ruse,
that I'm under some spell of self abuse.
But really, I'm better off this way.
I don't criticize others on their looks,
unlike sighted people,
who judge each other like books.
Honestly, there's not much left to say.
The flowers outside,
they smell divine.
And they feel just fine,
so why should it matter,
if I can see them with my eyes?
This was kind of the perfect adoptable because I've been recently learning a lot of things about blind people and the misconceptions that sighted people have about them. One is that they see in black and white, but that's not really true since they don't actually know what those colors look like, unless they went blind at some point of their lives. Instead, those that are born blind simply see the absence or presence of light. If you want to learn more, look up Tommy Edison. He was born blind and he frequently answers questions from sighted people, while adding a bit of humor. Sorry for this little paragraph, but I did want to mention this as it explains a lot of the poem. ^^ This isn't really related to the adoptable itself though, so please don't count it as an extra or something. ^-^;;
