Visions of

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Our world is viewed in depth
Colours of landscape stand out
Do not mesh to a blur
As we can see past and onto next colour
All a clever conjuring trick
Of lens and brain manipulations
The initial images on lens are upside down
Brain turns and fixes them
Operates the focus and direction of eyes
Gives colour from its palate of knowledge
Judges distance and clarity
Then renders these images to our thoughts
What we see is the brain's perceptions
Of the light pulses received through our eyes
If we did not have eyes we could not see
If our brains failed the image would not be communicated
Little wonder in love
We see what we desire
Put on those rose coloured glasses
Have our moods and emotions
Those stewing chemical imbalances
In which brain is marinated
Change our perception
On days when we are sad
Is the light dimmer or percieved as such
When we laugh does the Sun come out
Or does the brain adjust the brightness
Letting the world seem brighter and freer
As you look now
See the detail you can view
The myriad of things
The tones of colours and distances
How the light moves and curves
Even a sense of the texture of objects or surfaces
Is provided to our brain without us touching
All through the images the lens of our eyes capture
Those askew images our brain manipulates
And all only within the light wavelengths we can see
There maybe bursts of radiation
Ultraviolet flaring on flowers or in heat shimmers
And to those we are blind and thus unknowing
The manner in which a bee finds the right flower
How its eyes and brain receive and process light
Is a different world from us
Do we all have such censorship of heart
Innate biases of the soul
To colour or action or shape or idea
Where the brain will cast such things
In the worst light possible
An inherent inbuilt racism and not interested-ism
Of our brain's filtering mechanisms
Our children are more beautiful
Other children more grubby
Our love's eyes shine like sapphires
Their skin has texture of velvet
And how they move seems illuminated
Every sense enhanced and the world is brighter
As marinated brain constructs
Perfect image from the images fed.