Beyond Sight

Inspiration & Motivation for Life with Vision Loss

 

"Beyond Sight" inspires and motivates those living with vision loss. Like a semicolon in literature, life doesn’t stop with blindness—it continues forward. This page shares uplifting stories, encouraging thoughts, and empowering messages to help the blind and visually impaired embrace life’s journey with resilience and hope. 

Meet some amazing people who are living with vision loss.

 

Beyond Sight: A New Vision 

They said, “Oh no! How will you cope?”
As if my dreams just slid down a slope.
But vision, my friend, is more than the eyes,
It’s grit, it’s heart—it’s reaching the skies!

Christine Ha wields a chef’s sharp blade,
Architects draft where dreams are laid.
From courtrooms to coding, art to ballet,
Blindness won’t stand in passion’s way.

You’ll hear, “But how?” with a puzzled stare,
As if success just isn’t there.
We adapt, we thrive, we prove them wrong,
We lead, we laugh, we dance along.

Screen readers sing, Braille dots tell,
We crack the code, we write so well.
Tech’s our sidekick, we level the game,
Success and blindness? One and the same.

To the newly blind—breathe, don’t fear,
Your world’s not gone, it’s shifting gear.
You’ll find your way, you’ll make it through,
And Beyond Sight—there’s still YOU.

Author: David Yerks-Young

 

Occasionally, you may hear people comment on your visual impairment, and these interactions can sometimes be awkward, frustrating, or even illuminating. One blind poet, David Steele, beautifully captures a way to deflect such comments with a touch of wit and self-assurance in his poem "Someone Told Me Yesterday;"

 

Someone told me yesterday
“I don’t know how you do it”

“I think I’d rather end it all,
than every day go through it”

But imagine their surprise
when I replied with first a smile
then told them
“Going blind has made this life of mine worthwhile”

“I’ve gained a new perspective
since I started losing sight
I didn’t know how strong I was
until I had to fight”

“I pay much more attention
than I ever did before
to the beauty of this world
each time I step outside my door”

“They say you don’t know what you’ve got
until the day it’s gone
but despite precious sight I miss
my life will carry on”

“The challenges, the cards we’re dealt
might not be the best hand
but we will always find a way
now this I understand”

Don’t think that they expected me
to feel the way I do
but hopefully they see sight loss
with a different view

Gain a new perspective
about disability
and how I’m so much happier
despite what I can’t see.

Author, David Steele,  "The Blind Poet"

 

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