CURSE TO SEE.

“Some are born to enjoy illusions, while others are cursed to see the truth.”

Perhaps the curse was never in seeing,
but in knowing that once your eyes are opened,
you cannot close them back into innocence.

The fruit was tasted,
and the veil was lifted.
Suddenly, there was good and evil,
choice and consequence,
freedom and the weight of it.

Perhaps that was the beginning of our independence.
the moment humanity discovered
it could choose beyond the boundaries
it had once simply accepted.

But perhaps mercy was already waiting
on the other side of that knowledge.

Because even with opened eyes,
choice remained.

And that is where Christ enters the story.
not to make us innocent again,
not to erase what we have seen,
but to leave the way home open.

Because grace does not ask us
to become blind again.

It asks us to see,
to understand,
to carry the weight of knowing.

and still choose
to return.

Perhaps that is the greater freedom

not the freedom of never knowing,
but the freedom to choose again
after you know.



Poetry by Ogundu Christabel oluebube (Chrisie)
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Written on 2026-08-12 at 02:23

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This is a thoughtful piece of spiritual reflection. The idea that grace doesn't ask us to become blind again is genuinely strong, and it gives the whole meditation a generous, hard-won feeling. The turn from curse to freedom works because it doesn't deny the weight of seeing. But the poem becomes a little sermon-like after the midpoint. The voice starts to explain rather than explore, and the final lines, while true, feel more like a conclusion than a discovery. A more personal image or moment of struggle would ground the theology and make the return home feel less abstract. Still, the central insight is solid.
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