Iris (5-minute Freewrite)
The world is such a beautiful place. Every single morning, I am greeted by sceneric sun rays. This is the moment I absorb in as much as light as I can, and it always feels so good. If too much light, I will close up a little.
Despite the fact that my surrounding is usually picturesque, once a week I will be greeted by people who are drunk. Often, they look into me and say something disrespectful, due to high with drugs. As much as I don't want, I will witness people fighting, or someone died of drugs' overdose, someone being dragged out into the street and being beaten up. The time when I will shrink most is when I see death in front of me.
I will yearn for the next day. When the grief and mourning at night had gone, and new day has come, to be greeted by that sun ray again.
What I love the most is gazing into the green eyes of Carol. It mesmerises always, without fail. I will open up as wide as I can so that I get every detail of her eyes and features. So captivating. She is my dear daughter. Beautiful, isn't she? She resembles her mother whom I miss dearly. Especially those green pair of eyes. She says I look the same as hers. Oh well...
The world becomes blurry one day. Months pass by and the world is blur now. Carol brings me to the doctor for a check up. And I receive bad news of having glaucoma and it is so bad beyond any intervention can help.
Eventually, I lose the light. Now everyday I wake up to darkness. Just voices and sound. I try to move around to see whether will there still be slightest light that can seep into me. No. I try with all my might in vain.
I am iris. The iris of Carol's father.
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very beautifully written. I was about to tear when I read till the last part about his daughter becoming his iris. The males in my mom's family have a history with glaucoma. My grandpa really did lose his sight due to it and now he lives a difficult life. My uncles really became his iris but they too work and haven't been able to be with him all the time.
My mother had too at early stage. Went for surgery and it helped till today. We hope there is no reoccurrence :)
It is really not fun at all to have glaucoma.
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This was an intriguing short story. I thought at first that it was written from the perspective of the floweriris so it was a neat surprise in the end to see that it was from the human iris.