Illusions?
Some nights, from out the dark, I seem to see
Dim flicker-lights of stars behind thin mists
Which veil them from my focussed sight. Is this because
I think they’re there, and so permit my brain
To turn my thought into apparent fact?.
Or is peripheral night-vision more acute?.
For, when I stare straight where those glimmers were – all’s blank!.
It’s rather like those minds that search for God.
Some think He’s there, and so they seem to see
His works made manifest about them; but when they
Look hard for something definite, by which
They can confirm His interest in them,
He vanishes completely from their view; as though
He never did exist – or else preferred to hide!.
