Rose Colored Spectacles Amelia Pond

Rose Colored Spectacles

by Amelia Pond

Through their rose-colored spectacles,

they see normality.

Through those tinted pieces of glass,

they see conversation

hear jokes

notice actions of passion

and understand everything.

But I strive

to live free of those rose-colored spectacles.

To see and hear and understand these things

for what they are,

without the shimmering translucent lenses

blinding my sight:

I see talks of gossip and rumours

hear verbal shaming

notice actions of jealousy, not passion

and acknowledge that I,

nor them

do not understand everything.

But alas,

not everyone can accept life

as it truly is,

without their ruby-toned wonders.

I have, with reluctance, realized

that I must come to accept

this bizarre sense of perception

as reality,

For it will take more than one person

To create a society independent

of the rose colored spectacles.