We Should Rehearse
written by: Sergio A. Ortiz
@Saore
Before the day we go blind.
Learn to read with our fingers
the scars on each other’s arms.
Unscrew for a couple of weeks
the bulb in our bedroom
and read in the dark.
With death comes blindness.
Charon won’t accept fear
as payment to cross Styx.
It’s not the sky granting
us flight. It’s not fire
that drowns us.
It’s the fall into light.
Sergio A. Ortiz is a retired Educator, Bilingual-Gay PRican Poet, Human Rights Advocate. Pushcart nominee, Best of the Web, Best of the Net. He took 2nd place in the 2016 Ramón Ataz annual poetry competition, sponsored by Alaire Publishing House.
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