VII. VEILS

By Marjorie Allen Seiffert

I shall punish your blindness

With a veil.

I shall choose words that join

Gaily word to word,

I shall weave them flauntingly

Into veil upon veil,

I shall wind them defiantly

Over my lips, over my eyes.

You shall not see your name

On my lips,

You shall not see your image

In my eyes!

And through my veils I shall not see

That you are blind.