To See Clearly...

To see clearly

Would mean to look about you

And know who you really are.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to see the truth,

Not what seems to be “clearly true”.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to search and to ask

Until you are truly content with your answer.

 

You will never be truly content with your answer.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to see what is around you

And to understand that there is something around you.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to see

What many others cannot see.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to see

That many others cannot see.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to see

Why many others cannot see.

 

Many others cannot see clearly.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to understand the cosmos,

To understand heaven, to understand hell,

But you still do not understand Earth.

Therefore,

 

To see clearly

Would mean to understand

That we cannot always understand.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to understand

That all is still not understood.

 

To see clearly

Would mean

To scrutinize.

 

Examine your world. Examine your people. Examine yourself.

 

To see clearly

Would mean

To look down and see your shackles,

To look up and see outside your cage bars.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to see

Light.

 

To see clearly

Would mean

To question your shackles and your cage.

 

Why the shackles and the cage?

 

You will never be truly satisfied with your answer.

 

To see clearly

Would mean to see

That we can question the shackles and the cage.

 

Why do we not question the shackles and the cage?

 

Many others cannot see clearly.

 

To see clearly would mean to step out

Of my shackles

And to exit my

Cage,

 

To look back and see that home is a pen, humanity cattle,

To free one’s self of the curse of “knowing” and therefore

not seeing,

To abandon the answer and embrace the question.

 

To see clearly means to open your eyes.

To see clearly we must open our eyes.

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