I'm Okay.

When you say that you are okay
Is that a code for blind
Okay and blind are not the same thing sir

You see a man that is okay
Is a man that has faced down
unokay okayness
and bitch slapped it

He's faced down the demons
of both manic and depressive life forces
He's okay to be
fine. Alright. unfettered.

You are a blind man
Not like you can't see
But that you won't

You put out your own eyes
to screw on spiritual ones
that don't allow you to look inward
and see all the dark crevices
where okay hasn't made a home
It never will when blind eyes seek past it

I think the only thing you have seen
in a good long time
is your own self-righteousness
Self-hatred...
but interestingly,
no self.

So you can tell me you're okay
I'll tell you I'm okay
like I am supposed to
But until you lay down your disabilities
and turn seeing eyes upon them
it won't all be okay.