Dust In The Eyes

by Robert Lee Frost — a poem card from Justes Mots

A paradoxical celebration of willing blindness and overwhelming hardship as correctives to arrogance and excessive speech. The speaker embraces adversity with ironic humor and defiance. This poem speaks to those seeking perspective or finding unexpected wisdom in difficult circumstances.

If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyes
Will keep my talk from getting overwise,
I'm not the one for putting off the proof.
Let it be overwhelming, off a roof
And round a corner, blizzard snow for dust,
And blind me to a standstill if it must.…

Themes: encouragement · graduation · new-chapter · recovery