Ocularity

Sketch by Freya Bigg
From deviantart.com

the mind’s eye is no mystic metaphor
and blindspot no figure of speech
blankness patterns our every optical disc
such that eyes cannot truthfully
see a whole picture

but consciousness blissfully lives
unaware of this void in our visual field
because subconscious mind fills the hole
with an image invented supposing
what ought to be there

perception forever in thrall to
a partial reality
perspective foreshortened no
matter in shadow or light
all that is learned always less than
accessibly knowable
limits affixed upon rational reason
breached only by fervent faith