Eyes
What is it that sees when vision is clear?
The core that has no story, has that ever seen anything?
Surely vision has loyalties.
Someone buying eye medicine does not see well,
but well enough, at least, to choose the cure.
Beyond day and night one watches
as your eyes close and open and close, as night
turning day turns night, as eyes
like particles float
in the light that is your face,
that is the sun.
Without you our eyes might be a danger
to the soul, but with you they become the same
as the soul. When that happens,
the heart is seeing!
You can say that the eyes see God, but it is God
who sees, as in the Qur’an when the desert mountain
looks at God, and eyes appear on every stone.
From The Book of Love
Translated by Coleman Barks
