If I Were Blind Comments

this is so beautiful and so true

This is remarkable, and not just as a poem (which is impressive enough on its own terms) but also as a perception of reality on your part. You show a grasp of life's unfairness but rather than wallowing in it to no good end - the WOE IS ME or WHY ME? reactions which are dead ends - you find so much to appreciate around you. Blindness and deafness are afflictions which severely limit us, but not here - your speaker transcends the obvious problems and achieves MORE THAN SIGHTED/HEARING PEOPLE. There is not a trace of self-pity or sentimentality. The speaker is so focused on appreciation of the world her own affliction is forgotten in the overflow of her gratitude. BTW If you want to share your poetry writing with family or friends, this strikes me as an ideal poem to show them first. Who among them, among any of us could resist the sheer grace of these words? I'll answer that: N-O O-N-E!