Blindness
By D. S. Martin
I praise you for my blindness not my
diminishing ability with fine print
but the way you cause me to move
securely where I’d never move on my own
the way I can’t see so must rely
on your whisper the way I can’t hear
so must rely on your touch the way
I can’t discern where you’re leading
since that is where you’re leading
D. S. Martin is Poet-in-Residence at McMaster Divinity College, and Series Editor for the Poiema Poetry Series from Cascade Books. He has written five poetry collections including Ampersand (2018), Conspiracy of Light: Poems Inspired by the Legacy of C.S. Lewis (2013), and his new book Angelicus (2021).