Point of View

Mar 11, 2008 - 20:20 PM PST

Born with a cocoon around us
Made of places, events, and people we've met
Looking from the inside out
Everything is clear-It makes sense
But from outside looking in
We look blurry and our cocoon is cracked
And the lies seep in through the seems

Some people try to break their cocoon
A metamorphosis of the mind
And they may manage to get an arm out
Or maybe a leg or two
And they can move more freely
Walk more fluidly through the lies
But their eyes remain covered

This peripheral vision
Sensing truth but not quite grasping
Is where most journeys end
When the blind begin leading the blind
Where people give up
And start asking for directions
Rather than searching for themselves

But there are those who dare to search
The few who have achieved peripheral vision
And who have chosen to rebuild their cocoon
A recycled blend of old cocoons and the cocoons of others
Rather than breaking free of the cocoon
They have reinvented the cocoon
And created a lens to see the truth