Sightless

I cannot
Look back.

A flood of
Tears...
Blinds me.

I cannot look
Forward...

A flood of tears
Blinds me...

I close my eyes -
And stop looking.

Yet the deluge finds me.

Submerges me
In its blindness,
And renders me -
Tearfully sightless.

poem by Aparna Chatterjee
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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