I am blind

I am blind
I am poor
You
raise me   by   kindness   I trust
the society
Heaven forbid! if   criminal
I   have been condemned.
your
voice
assures me

friends?
paused.   the moment
to rob me   I struggled
destroyed
and sobbed

I cried
protect me!
you
exclaimed    who are you?
that
horror
and
fury,

I refrained.
I quitted and   escaped
unperceived

By Dana Salisbury

I am blind
I am poor
You
raise me by kindness I trust
the society
Heaven forbid! if criminal
I have been condemned.
your
voice
assures me

friends?
paused. the moment
to rob me I struggled
destroyed
and sobbed

I cried
protect me!
you
exclaimed who are you?
that
horror
and
fury,

I refrained.
I quitted and escaped
unperceived