Poem: 'The Unraveling of an Eye' by Tony Sokol

The Unraveling of an Eye

by Tony Sokol

I used to float, and time and space

meant nothing. When I looked beyond the face

that blinded me, then I saw

the land that cried because the law

had restrained us, had held us dead.

It restrained us in our heads.

Now my body's dead and I've gone blind,

there's nothing left me but my mind,

and for eternity, in this one spot,

I have to witness my own brain rot.

I cannot move, nor scream, nor turn:

I wish I'd had my body burned.