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Through Glass

written by: Dan Leicht

@Deeliopunk

With his glasses off the world around him looked muddled,

detached. He much preferred the world this way,

he thought it made more sense. As he made his way through busy streets

he noticed everyone looked the same, their faces

all blurred, their characteristics vanished.

“What a wonderful sight,” he thought.

All those years of worrying what he looked like, trying to become something

he was not - wasted. He considered stealing the glasses off faces of strangers

as they passed him by, what a perfect way to share his discovery, but he stopped

when he noticed a cardboard sign, the letters he couldn’t make out

so he put his glasses back on - OPEN YOUR HEART TO SEE - read the sign.

He let the sentiment linger for a moment before he asked

the young woman holding the sign what it meant,

“What we see isn’t always what’s most important,” she said.

“Sometimes it’s what we feel that truly matters.”