World Eye

there’s a world in my eye

an island spinning round

you and i can’t see the lie

it’s to the mind tight bound.

Round the retina it revolves

and manufactures history

conjures and resolves

interprets imagistic mystery.

this globe in fact pours out

its life and hue and glimmer

on every point about

and cooks it to a simmer.

Then with vegetarian lite

it fills the mental frame

reorders chaos right,

awakens truth the same.

and i upon my throne

and you upon your dais

long we reign alone

and ever truth our bias.

and if you’ve got an ill

politics, culture, art

this rock will be the pill

to cure your every smart.

just lodge it in your eye

it’s christian never fear

there’s no need to die

the truth is ever dear.

there’s no need for Sacraments

hands and knees be gone

all the rest are condiments

with this eye-log on.

watch for the others

no one is without

we’re all eye-mind brothers

thinking leaves no doubt.

we play with material raw

but the forms are in our head

ideas are the law

of the living and the dead.

for as you think it so

so it is as you think

but i’ll not wear the window

nor from this well take drink.

i walk through a world

alive with life throughout

a splendid word unfurled

where even mountains shout.

Creation spurns the world eye

the Son of Mary dies

hands were meant to lift high

Creation groans and cries.

my knees i’ll teach to rule

as bent they search the ground

my hands will go to school

lifted they are crowned.

And tongue and eye and mind

all humbled to the King

minds to taste, tongues to see

and eyes to joyful sing.