there were questions about you

("he's blind?")

like great, crashing waves they flooded me

("how do you have the patience?)

pulling me down, drowning me out 

("are you crazy?")

there were storms of stares; confusion and pity

(even relief)

it was hard

(annoying mostly)

but then i remembered you; 

calm and still in the face of all those  

invasive

stinging 

questions

(like the eye of the hurricane) 

so i rose above it all

(you were my life jacket)