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WHEN


WHEN

Can your eyes see for sure?

If the mind has blind fear,

......but if both are blind,

You don’t care it is all dead;

 

Really, in the absence of bright light,

At day time, but never at night,

If the day changes to complete night,

When do you think you have sight?

        (Yirgalem Girma)

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