INVISIBLY YOURS

Unwrap the bandages. What do you see?
He’s all eaten away. Meddling fools;
all you wanted was to be left alone.
This is the price of being interesting:
everyone looks, no one sees. Vanity
makes a little bonfire in your soul
that paints the faces red & warms nothing.
Someone says the phrase good looking, & all
you can do is sneeze. A benediction,
good look, good luck. Look is less than nothing,
more then everything, an eye for an eye
that blinds beholder & beheld alike
so they may see. So they may see. So they
may see. You see? Take off your dark glasses.
Transparent retinas refract no gazes; 
only the visible is mystery.