Something, I'm not sure what ... perhaps the fact that I've worn glasses for a long time ... set me to thinking about how we see things on the "eye chart of life."
Things past ... those large symbols near the top ... are the easiest to read. We can make them out with no difficulty. Also, we see them so well because we enhance them. In our thoughts they become better ... or sometimes worse ... than they really were.
But it's those things in the future ... those tiny images at the bottom of the chart ... which are so hard to make out. Oh, we'd like to be able to read them all, but we simply can't know with certainty what the future is going to bring for us.
Each day is a new page, sometimes the beginning of a new chapter in the story that is yet to become.
Patience, I tell myself. Patience. In time, some of that will become clear ... and the rest can wait.
The poem:
JUST AS WELL
On the eye chart
of my mind
I can see clearly
those distant symbols.
No blurring, in fact,
a sharpening focus
as I sit looking back
to times long past.
It's those last few,
nearer, lines of things
lying just ahead
that give me trouble.
It's just as well,
I tell myself; they will
reveal themselves
when it's time for that.
© 2006
(originally published in Capper's)
Today's word: symbols
1 comment:
This is a great way to look at perspectives. I wonder, what would life be like if we could see the future clearly? Not knowing leaves us with a sense of adventure, I think :)
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