Sight
By Thomas Page
after William Shakespeare
“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, / that has such people in it!”
–The Tempest
I would like to tell you how
I see such colors in beauteous
Terms but I can’t give you my eyes. Mankind
Is limited to the individual. Is
This a limitation or a gift? O
How I would like to show red so brave
Or blue so cool or green so new
But all that I see is mine own world.
I would love to show you a tint of purple that
Fills me with a sense of power or orange that has
The hue that conveys such
Warmness or the exact shade of yellow that catches people
Flipping through the channels in
Their sleepy reverie of the rainbow contained in it.
Academy of the Heart And Mind 