Is bent
To be a thing my eyes
Can see
Not quite what is
Reality
So bend my mind to fit
The world
Then see only the things
That fit
Ignore the things that don’t
One bit
So bend my mind to fit
The world
Then see only the things
That fit
Ignore the things that don’t
One bit
Before my eyes
Where nothing is
Just what it seems
Since what it seems
Is in my mind
Lao Tzu’s words can be pretty difficult to wrap a Western, science-educated mind around (my own struggle is continuous), beginning with understanding the term “the Tao” itself.
Here and there, now and again
Exploration yields discovery
Not of a new world
But a new way of seeing
Something
Tantalizingly near
Excruciatingly remote
Intangibly real
Exquisitely beautiful
A mote
In the corner of one eye
Visible only
In the periphery
Invisible looking straight on
Edges unaligned
Contexts out of reference
Colours unbalanced
Moments
Beauty
Reality
But I have always used
My camera to create them
The art of life
Provides a more difficult task