Saga of a Glaucoma Blind

To my closest friend I tell this story,

And as I speak, I tend to worry.

I wonder at night and sometimes in day,

I never thought so much I will have to pay.

They told me, "hey dude, you need a checkup"

And I always said, "You just shut up!"

"Glaucoma is a silent killer", they often said,

And for those words, my ears were dead.

I was forty then, looked fit and fine,

But for my eyes I was never kind.

"Do hell with the doc", I had in my mind,

Not realizing that one day, I could be blind.

As months went by, headaches came in,

So severe, as if rewards of my sin.

Me and my conscious still did not lit,

And I kept on cornering the doctor's visit,

“Oh! Colored haloes around the lights I see”,

I exclaimed and thought, “Am I guilty?”

But I lived like that for more than a decade,

Unaware, that my vision was going to fade.

I went to the doc when I was fifty-two,

But about my problem, I had no clue.

He did all tests, and tried his level best,

And told me I have already totally messed.

I was having glaucoma in both my eyes,

With no cure present, I knew eyesight will die.

There was only me to blame,

Yes, I should have listened to them.

And today when I am blind,

My friend writes this, to make you remind.

Don't neglect them – they see for you,

Please love your eyes - they are only two.

To my request, I hope you will listen,

“Don't let anyone be blind, my Son!”

A Poem by DR. ANKIT MAHESH PUNJABI

World Glaucoma Awareness Week7-13th March, 2010

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