“Hidden in plain sight”
I am sure you have heard this phrase,
No doubt you have experienced it too
And it left you in a daze.
How could you not have seen it?
It was there in plain sight,
And what was even more amazing
There was no lack of the light.
It’s been my experience here of late;
I know you would call it old age,
That I have been looking for something
And couldn’t find it at that stage.
Sometimes I would forget about it
And occupy the time otherwise
After which, it would suddenly turn up
As though it had been disguised.
No, there wasn’t any disguise,
It was hidden in plain sight,
And I may have looked right where it was
But it did not come to light.
It is like an optical illusion
I am sure you have experienced this,
Although, it was right before your sight
For some reason you still missed.
Camouflaged maybe, or the colour
Or maybe, a trick of the light,
I have been there on many occasions
It was hidden in plain sight.
Sometimes you have a laugh
After experiencing this phenomenon,
But if there is a serious consequence
Then that becomes a problem.
Like true satisfaction in life
Like that which the world searches after,
Which when one truly finds it
Brings them joy and laughter.
Joy in the midst of life’s storms
And laughter not as in merriment,
But laughter that resonates within
When we truly and genuinely repent.
Satisfaction that’s hidden in plain sight,
But obstructed by our impaired vision,
As we look in all the wrong places;
Sometimes we even search religion.
Reminds me of a song I used to hear,
“He was there all the time”,
And even now Jesus waits patiently
But to other things we are inclined.
O yes! He is hidden in plain sight
And he calls, “My child won’t you come?”
But your attention is somewhere else
And your very hope you shun.
Stewart Russell © June 2020
