4.5/4.0

4.5/4.0

when I was seven

the eye doctor told me

I was far-sighted handing me

a pair of thick-lensed

glasses he said

“If the world were flat

you could see all the

way to the Eiffel Tower”

but the world is round and

I’ve never been to Paris

when I was seventeen

someone told me I saw

life through rose-colored

glasses but after a while

the thorns began to dig

into my temples

at twenty-four I am tired

of glasses I will rely only

on my own eyes and maybe

then I can see past the

Eiffel Tower maybe I can see

all the way to the moon