I have just recovered from my second cataract operation and I now have twenty-twenty vision for the first time in my life! This is just one aspect of the great celebration!
A LONG WAIT
The Man-in-the-Moon held out on me
Till I was seventy-seven!
I never saw him beaming there
Out of a cloudless heaven.
Of course, I saw his smiling face
In many picture books,
So I was well-aquainted
With his chubby, rotund looks.
But when I looked up in the sky
I saw a faceless ball.
I never saw the Man-in-the-Moon
I never saw him at all.
I never saw the 'man-in-the-moon'
As applied to astronomy.
I never saw the hills and dales
I knew that I should see.
They spoke of craters and canals,
And every other topic,
But all I saw was a fuzzy blob
With eyes just too myopic.
I saw the photographs and charts
They pinned up on the wall,
But I never saw the continents,
I never saw them at all.
Till modern science did the trick
With a swift and sure incision
And for the first time in my life
I've twenty/twenty vision!
I trace the outlines of the shapes
And marvel as I see
The whole thing with my naked eye!
The lunar geography!
It really is a miracle
And it couldn't come too soon.
'It is the birthday of my life!'
I can see the Man-in-the-Moon!
