Zien

wacht niet langer
op precies de juiste lichtstraal
die eindelijk
toont wat je wilt zien

keer naar binnen
nu je je beide ogen sluit
blijkt wat je zocht
er al te zijn

oud omvat het nieuwe
je adem een moment
en tevens eeuwigheid

'So when you hear yourself invited to 'see', it is not the sight of this eye (of the flesh) that I would have you think about. You have another eye within, much clearer that that one, an eye that looks at the past, the present, and the future all at once, which sheds the light and keenness of its vision over all things, which penetrates things hidden and searches into complexities, needing no other light by which to see all this, but seeing by the light that it possesses itself.’


Hugh of Saint Victor (1096-1141)