SNAPSONG 71

Said a man proud and triumphantly unwise

“Because I do not see it,

It does not exist

     Seeing is my supremest belief”

 

If you think I’m wrong

Provide your proof

Show me the shape of an absent thought

Or the lineaments of a latent imagination

 

Touch is my teacher

Appearance my priest

Whatever is not

Can never be

 

The fate of the flower

Is its peculiar colour

What is the ocean

Without its waves

 

Show it to me

And I will tell what it is

I can never think of the rain

If I do not see the clouds

 

We eat what we see

Confirms the Village Sage

It is things never seen

That continue to eat us

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