Love is Blind at the Space Camp Challenge for the Visually Impaired

Love is Blind at the Space Camp Challenge for the Visually Impaired

by Richard Alan Hadley

She asked if I wanted to go to outer space
If our future might be written in the stars

But I’m blind you see

She whispered to me her secret:
    We all exist in darkness
    light is the real anomaly

Who doesn’t dream of floating weightless in the heavens
to escape the crushing grip of gravity at home

but when we fell back down
at twice the speed of sound
    no one was surprised

So I never got to feel the face in the moon
    and after all who could ever read the stars in Braille,
    even in Alabama

Richard Alan Hadley is a new poet from the Midwest who finds inspiration for his lunchtime poems in medical and scientific journal articles before returning to work as a pediatric healthcare chaplain. His first published poems appeared in The Purpled Nail and From the Depths. He is set to begin an MFA program in the Spring of 2022.