Opening the Blind

I am. Today. At last.
A new me
Opens his eyes
The first light of morning breaks
The long night is over.
The past is past
Informing
Infusing my life’s blood with wisdom
Those who have deceived
Those who have hurt
Those who have betrayed
Are banished
This day.
Those who love
Those who give
Those who know
These I embrace
And invite
On a road not taken.
The future beckons
With possibility. And challenge.
But the present. Ah, Today. Now. This moment.
I breathe
The deep breath of being.
This day. This time.
Time
Is mine.

Laurence Overmire is an American actor/director/writer who has worked on stage, film and television. His poetry has been or will be published in "Kimera," "The Penwood Review," "Nuthouse," "Lynx Eye," "Emotions," "Angelflesh," "Maelstrom," "The Laire," "Uprising," "Office Number One," "Superior Poetry News," "Main Street Rag Poetry Journal," "Children, Churches and Daddies," "The Gentle Survivalist," "Short North Gazette," "Nomad's Choir," "Improvijazzation Nation," "The Writer's Exchange," "Over the Back Fence Magazine," "Niederngasse," "Apples and Oranges," "Pegasus," "Blind Man's Rainbow," Wings," "L'Intrigue," "Mobius," "Footprints," "Vol. No. Magazine," "Some Words," "Shadyvale Magazine," "Transcendant Visions," "Art Villa," "Bonfire," "Ygdrasil," "Aileron," "Barbaric Yawp," "Webstatic," "Seeker Magazine," "Ixion," "Unlikely Stories," "Poetry in the Light," "Horsethief's Journal," "Avalon," "Mind Fire Poetry Journal," "Burn," "ArtsFusion," "Manx Fiction," "Eclectica," "ShallowEND," "Carved in Sand," "The Courtship of Winds," "Psychopetica" and others.

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