I wrote Blind to be lyrics to a song, but the fact that there was no melody (and I’m no song writer) started to distract me… The reason that I wrote Blind is that I was pondering the effects of physical attractiveness in people: where it gets you, how it is an advantage, how it is a disadvantage. I was also at the time wondering about the injustice of how some people have amazing personalities but are ignored because of their physical appearance, and vice versa, some people are extremely mean and evil, but their physical appearance causes some to get past that. (If you want to hear more of my thoughts on that, check out the chapter called People Say A lot of Things 1, in A Window to the World).

The first line “We are split in half in 4 ways” Is talking about how you can spit the human population:

Good Heart: Bad Heart

Attractive: Not Attractive (or rather, those who would rather marry the hot person than the nice (ugly) person, and those who would rather marry a nice person than the hot (mean) person)

Or something to that effect. (Just as a note, I realize that “half in four ways” would communicate more ways to be split in half, but I thought that “half in two ways” would seem “duh” so some people)

Anyhow, in this piece, I was pulling on the idea of a world without bodies, only “floating” personalities. I realized that such a world really did exist for the blind. I also cut a stanza that partially explained about the butterflies in this poem. I was brainstorming some of the things that result from physical appearance, and I came up with the word ”infatuation.” Infatuation is most of the time triggered by no personality traits whatsoever, usually only physical attributes. From there on my scribbly-brainstorming-paper, I drew a line from “infatuation” to “butterflies in stomach.”

To clear up a couple of the other lines used in the poem, "tinted water" refers to the way people evaluate others in a twisted way due to thier physical appearance, pretty obvious. Um, the line "We all live under the same shooting star" most definitely is referring to the fact that we all have wishes and also says that we're really all born as humans in general... we have more in common that we assume.

So hopefully, that cleared a little of that up. You must know that I am not trying to say that I am the perfect human and that I don’t care whatsoever about looking pretty or having an attractive hubby. I was just writing on the nature of our society, about how the only way to get past physical “sparkles” is to be blind. Unlike in The Little Space Girl, I have reasonable backing and thought to this one, haha.

Tootles,

Miscellanea