Seeing Is Believing

 

 

Seeing is believing

That’s what some dare to believe

But I am undecided at the moment

For one’s eyes can be deceived.

 

Take an optical illusion:

What one sees is not really so

And I don’t have to belabor that

For I know that you know.

 

The lighting can be tricky

In the night as well as the day

And optical illusions will fool you

Regardless of what you say.

 

 

Some people advanced in age

See things that are not there

And they will point out the location

But you still cannot see where.

 

Sometimes before the court

A witness is absolutely sure

Until under severe cross examination

He is not sure any more.

 

I saw it with my two eyes

The lighting was clear and good

But regarding identifying the person

I am not so sure that I could.

 

Sometimes we choose to doubt

What we have actually seen

And if we work at it long enough

We may treat it as a dream.

 

Like an unpleasant experience

That we desperately want to forget,

Of such we may become oblivious

After a successful memory reset.

 

There were many in Jesus’ day

Who witnessed his many miracles

Yet refused to believe what they saw;

He was not one of their people.

 

Therefore, seeing is believing,

Does not hold for every case

Since there are those who refuse to believe

For fear of being out of place.

 

Stewart Russell © January 13, 2021