We are blind.
We don’t see
what is right in front of us
and
all that could be.
The beauty of the earth,
the beauty of the stars,
the beauty of all our failings and scars
lay
hidden behind the shutters
of our guilt, our shame,
our comparison to others.
But when we
stop
and
breathe...deeply
the shutters crack open,
our vision returns
and
we glimpse the universe’s wonder
more completely.