The Lazy Eye

The lazy eye is more than just a sign

    Of native physical deformity

    It is a roaming curiosity,

While one is tethered, although not confined,

To solid reason of the worldly kind

    The lazy eye’s adventurous and free,

    A sailor of the lofty sky’s warm seas

A voyager, imagineer, benign

And so often a thing benevolent

    Proclaiming to the world, yes, I may gaze

    But while I speak to you my thoughts are spent

Determining just how the moonlight plays

    Upon the walls and where the lost time went.

    The lazy eye ponders, observes, and strays.

June 15