You let light pass through
giving visions of the world
with all its beauty
and not so beautiful self.
You are indeed
a painful pane of nature
revealing whatever passes
your fragile view.
Though a barrier to much
you will open to receive the breeze
of whatever that’s not screened.
It is said that the eyes
are the windows of the soul
yet, closed eyes are not
as soulless as closed windows.