Well, there is no doubt that you may get hurt and eye infection if you poke your eyes. However, it does not always damage eyes. That is, you poked your eyes by accident, but not so severe. It's okay after taking a rest and dropping some basic eye drops to reduce pain and kill bacteria. While you got seriously poked, you may get eye problems indeed. When your eyes get injury, first thing you must consider is avoiding being infected ant more. Injured eyes are easy to get further infection in that bacteria and germs can follow. Also, poke can hurt the blood vessels in eyes so that bloodshot may occur, i.e, pink eye and red eye are accompanied.