Life Bites
Life Bites
Decades of spiritual practice
even-tempered, good-natured
prone to smiling
then cataract surgery on one eye
Watch out
life bites in surprising ways
It’s like having sight
from different people
seeing two separate worlds,
neither of them clear
one eye has a new lens,
but no glasses—weeks
for vision to stabilize
the other, cataract
still clouds and blurs
My watercolors look different
though each eye
Friends and doctors say easy
but my equanimity is blown
inside, irritable and annoyed
outside, watching my tongue
Amrita - loved this and as I did not know Mueller's poem, I looked it up and am delighted to be able to explain to friends who doubt the clarity of my vision that there truly are sheep in bales of hay scattered on the far field. And did that statue really move? Of course it did, as the sun set, her wings sprouted.
cataract surgery did not go well for me - I too still find it hard to regain my equanimity but am finding a gradual acceptance of how it is. Often think of Mueller's poem Monet Refuses the Operation :)