THROUGH THE PUPIL

English Oh!, a wonderful language, roots go very deep as well,

The more, one dwells within, the more one gathers in  a swell,

Where  you can recite a verse  in a play  and play in a recital,

You can drive in parkways and yet park in driveways as well.

One such word puzzled me, forced me to browse it very well, 

Pupil, the word oft  familiar to the oculist, helping  me to dwell. 

Heard  every morn, the headcounts loudly spell this as a whole,

 Besides the student, it conveys the novice or the follower’s role, 

All living things under the sky enjoy their sight  on the whole, 

Iris of the eye also permits the light through this central hole,

This hiatus in iris, the most looked by clinicians on the whole,  

The size, the shape or its color or its occlusion spells its role,

Ability or inability to conduct light spreads bloom or gloom,

The much sought after organ on view  in intensive care room.

Usually one in each eye, rarely two, a conduit for light or sight, 

Physician’s  diagnostic aid, when the patient is in bad plight.

Drugs, poisons, head injury or eye disease all show up in daylight,

In a coma state, the surgeons and physicians’ lead kindly to light.

Living with bloom or lying in state, the pupil decides the state,

Responds to  light in life ,to go dilated and fixed, decides the fate.

  

Oculist’s bread and butter, lunch or supper, the pupil is the decider,  

Optic nerve in health or disease, also the evidence of a brain teaser,

Fluid pressure of brain and eye, pupils show, to lead the  bandwagon,

Non reacting  partner oft reveals  the flamed  sight in inflammation.

Medical Jargon adds  surnames to pinpoint the disease in question, 

To assess the state of brain or eyes  to aid the treatment in  precision, 

Marcus Gunn pupil, Adie’s and Horner’s and the pin point pupil 

Like a novice medico  in darkness, it’s ever a  rigmarole pupil