panopticon

if thine eye be unfolded, thy body will be full of light

matt 6:22

 

a vessel for an arc of light

ever noontide

never night

 

for those obscured

and withered

shades

 

are those who,

sensing light,

evade

 

through habit

fear

or some pretense

 

perchance their elders

scattered hence

and hid behind a slatted fence

 

to behold the light by turns

and hide their eyes

from lucid burns

 

'whence burns?'

i ask

and 'whence retreat?'

 

above all things fair lux is fleet

and not outrun by mortal feet

 

in truth what burns is simply fear

let it go and remain here

 

as the false self burns away

leaving only shades of day

 

refracted, yes,

but not obscured

or subject to the body's lures

 

for all hues in their arc return

to solar foci,

there to burn,

and arc again

through all abodes

 

through trough and crest

and axis nodes

 

what some name many

i hail 'one'

the efflux of the myriad suns

 

as one player plays all parts

one lucid flame's dance

drums all hearts

 

. . .

copyright Peter Asher Watts 2007