Perception: your reality

Perception is a compilation

Of your past history

Through which you see

Wrongly or correctly

Your present reality

Perception affects your identity

Positively or negatively

Based on what you think

People think you are

Perception leads to projection.

The good, bad and ugly

Like what’s inside

Comes in expression

Whether embracing love

Or walls of rejection

Before you can continue

Your inner self must first precede

To frame your picture

And settle inside

Be transparent and befriend

Or be lonely and focus on

Unconditionally accept humanity

Or prejudge and condemn individuality

Projection evolves towards conception

Where thoughts, words and actions give birth

To what you have already contextualized within

Resulting in an external manifestation

An invitation to all creation

To live with you

Help make your dream come true

Or confirm your nightmare too

To walk with you

From conception to maturation

From coincidence to confirmation

From self-awareness to personal revelation

To give you a sneak peek

Of what your perception can do

How can it illuminate or cloud you?

Right or wrong

You wear it all day

Projecting it in word and song

Conceiving continuously from night to dawn

Without knowing why people respond

Some distant, some loving

Of you the one who perceives

Whose world inside and outside

Have come and gone

Sometimes in the company of friends

Other times with no one to lean on

So don’t judge anything ahead of time

Although there is no reason or rhyme

Because god is sublime

Know that man must first discover himself

Before I can find

The presumptuous perception

That confuses him most of the time

A prison or a paradise

You can have through perception

Everything depends on you

Your lighting

Your imagination

Your stimulation

Your inner feeling

If it’s going to be

It depends on me!

As a man thinks in his heart

So he is

This is not a pop quiz

Come out therefore

From behind bars

Rest in paradise

And reach for the stars!

by Paul Davis