Jaundiced Eyes

Jaundiced Eyes Jaundiced eyes covet past tense masquerades In crypts where yellowed brittleness recall bitterness Where glassy-eyed failures suck truth dry - Vampires with addictions Distorting graveyards at the altar Of introspection Like green-eyed monsters Grasping At monetary dust of renunciation - As thirty silver coins of delusion Smash against a field of potter’s headstones Of mummified expectations – Snake eyes coil to strike Festering bones of rose colored bifocals Framed with near-sighted prejudice In cock-eyed bloodied clarity distorted Prescriptions, Opaque, ochre tinted corrections See beauty as bloodless crumbling petals When black holes of envy blind side the mindful Blaspheming the self-evident In catacombs of blind spots Where the battered armor of rightness lies still Awaiting revelation’s softly spoken new light - A perpetual whispering In humility's tears restoring lenses knowing the need For a baptism of clear-eyed focus. 6-25-21 Contest: The Jaundiced Eye Sponsor: Unseeking Seeker