Is The Rest Of Life Like This

Both pairs of reading glasses
have it, surely it is not my eyes!
I couldn’t wear being visually
impaired (though some would
say it’s my normal state)
at this time in my life.

I can focus at a distance
and still see with the same
acuity of old – maybe not
20/20, perhaps conceding
memory sharpens fuzzy bits
when outlines are blurred.

But wear glasses and spots
which I know cannot be on
monitor screen or in my eyes
appear, spots which ignore
physical reality, floating into
being suspended between.

Surface flaws on the lens,
small imperfections sure,
yet an indelible extension of
my writing, a commentary of
distraction, a focus left to
wander – and I wonder.

Is the rest of life like this?
© I.D. Carswell 2007-02-03