17.1.20

LIMITS OF VISION

by  shaun   lawton 

This restriction of perceiving ourselves as bipedal

 beings with a split brain and only two hands 
  hominids loping along to score our next medal
   thinking we're winning and conquering lands 

What are we overthrowing if not our own sense
 of real objectivity and knowing the difference
  between seeing and believing that anything's real
   like the pores in our skin or the craters of the moon

How may we secure our newfound perspective
 if we don't keep in mind that later or soon 
  enough our misguided sense of directive 
   could use further adjustment to better attune

Ourselves to the notion we're part of a picture
 much greater than anything we might imagine 
  if we just let go of our own patented scripture
   the authenticity remaining we could examine 

How strange to think that whatever is evident
 may require faith to believe in due to its size
  that our individual selves here as a resident 
   remain a fraction of a colony of cells in our eyes


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