Eyes No Longer Blind

Cast away all doubt from you now
Else my tale, your reason, disallow
Forsake the comfortable truths you have known
And listen to a tale heard on winds blown

My tale begins as all great ones do
In the darkened forest of psychological gloom
The night sky's light cannot reach the ground
And the swaying of limbs above creates not a sound

But there is life in the forest, to be sure
And for their lives death can bring no cure
Myriad eyes, unblinking, will see
Anything that traverses through the trees

How can they be, these devils now I see
How can they be, these devils now I see
Who hid behind my faith in God
Will I, from them, be free
Oh how can they be
These eyes that now can see

Iridescent and clear, they see and they hear
And spook from the traveler the faith he held dear
For their eyes; their unholy lives
Meant for him a soulful of strife

For they could not exist in the world he had known
And he therefore must be in another one shown
Far from his mentors and biblical minds
The traveler navigated through eyes no longer blind

Could they all have been wrong at once
Could the scholars have been taught by the dunce
For whose god above can reason these
Who live so secretly behind the dense trees

How can they be, these devils now I see
How can they be, these devils now I see
Who hid behind my faith in God
Will I from them be free
Oh how can they be, these eyes that now can see
I'd rather hide behind a god!
Close my eyes and mind
How can I see God, with eyes no longer blind

Uncertain in mind and unequal in step
The faithless but wizened traveler crept
But was lost through the knowing and despaired of recovering
From the thought that his god had never been hovering