Seeing with different eyes

Sometimes I know that my physical eyes,
cannot perceive things well,
though it is functioning well.

Tell me the story often, for I forget so soon,
though my brain is functioning well.

Sometimes unseen things need to be seen
with the eyes of heart,

and sometimes physical things need to be seen
with the eyes of stationary,

because I know that,
there is rods in the pencils and in pens,
there is cones in colour pens,
and there is brains in all three of them.


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I know not how the light is shed,
Nor understand this lens.
I only know that there are eyes
In pencils and in pens.

- John Piper -