01-02-2019, 08:14 AM
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To the Limits of Vision
Here's to the God-granted limits of vision
that spare us all sight of hairy dust mites,
of earthquakes aborning in landslips beneath us,
and (greatest of mercies) our fellow-men’s souls.
From fear of ugliness He made provision
by blinding our eyes to virus and blights;
eyes bounded by solids He chose to bequeath us,
that doom might surprise us like bulldozered moles.
Most of all, we must applaud His decision
to hide our red rage at meaningless slights,
men's envy, those hellish depressions that wreath us
as darkly we sulk after missing our goals.
Praise our Creator, though we can’t envision
His reason to block His creatures' insights:
He sees our bad hearts through the falsehoods that sheath us
and spares us His pain as we fail in our roles.
Thanks to both critics, particularly @CRNDLSM for pointing out that the first line of S4 needed to have its sense reversed to make sense.
As to the moles, not needing to be shriven or anything, suddenness and surprise might indeed be their preference if they had one. (Though, given the choice, they'd surely prefer to have the rhyme fall on some other species.)
To the Limits of Vision
Here's to the God-granted limits of vision
that spare us all sight of hairy dust mites,
of earthquakes aborning in landslips beneath us,
and (greatest of mercies) our fellow-men’s souls.
From fear of ugliness He made provision
by blinding our eyes to virus and blights;
eyes bounded by solids He chose to bequeath us,
that doom might surprise us like bulldozered moles.
Most of all, we must applaud His decision
to hide our red rage at meaningless slights,
men's envy, those hellish depressions that wreath us
as darkly we sulk after missing our goals.
Praise our Creator, though we can’t envision
His reason to block His creatures' insights:
He sees our bad hearts through the falsehoods that sheath us
and spares us His pain as we fail in our roles.
Thanks to both critics, particularly @CRNDLSM for pointing out that the first line of S4 needed to have its sense reversed to make sense.
As to the moles, not needing to be shriven or anything, suddenness and surprise might indeed be their preference if they had one. (Though, given the choice, they'd surely prefer to have the rhyme fall on some other species.)
Non-practicing atheist