You See More When You Look Within Before You Look With Out

Life Lessons wrapped in Poetry. Insight is a poem exposing how our outer world reflects our inner world.

“Insight” Designed by Author (Carmellita) in Canva

Wisdom improves our intuition, and as our intuition increases, we develop insight. Insight has a manifold meaning. Insight is:

• an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding.
• penetrating mental vision or discernment; faculty of seeing into inner character or underlying truth.
• An unrecognized fundamental human truth that reveals the inner nature of things
• A new way of perceiving your world which challenges the status quo and tradition.
• Seeing into the underlying motivations that drive people’s actions.

In the field of Psychology, insight is

• an understanding of relationships that sheds light on or helps solve a problem.
• (in psychotherapy) the recognition of sources of emotional difficulty.
• an understanding of the motivational forces behind one’s actions, thoughts, or behavior; self-knowledge.

While the poem plays with Insight through the phrase in sight. The themes and meanings of insight are a part of the underlining subtext.

With this in heart and mind, I present to you…

Insight

What is within shows up with out
And what you see may cast doubt
The dawn of light can only project
The mirror in sight can only reflect
You’re holding another shiny object
The truth you chose to reject
For a moment, you feel like a fool
Think you’re the exception not the rule
You try to fill it to make it deep
but the water continues to seep

The vessel has a big ol’ hole
because you bought what was sold
That which is joy divine
was the farthest from your mind
Pretty things have you intoxicated
Keeping your pupils deceptively dilated
Illusions mark and claim you
Designed that way, don’t blame you
Yet my flame has…