Thrown into a world
Where sight deceives
Creatures of eyes
Sought reprieve

Things that were known
Through the light of their gaze
Seemed as many
As the stars ablaze

They lived in peace
And loved to name
A world they saw
Where nothing was ever the same

Yet among them
A loansome creature was born
With an eye turned inward
A monster in form

Cursed they said
The creature had been
For it could weep and love
All it had ever seen

Things it knew
Through the light of its gaze
Seemed to be many
Yet one and the same

So it lived in fear
And abhorred to name
A world it saw
That words could never claim

Then what was real
The creature could not tell
For the eye turned within
Had cast a morbid spell

The gift of sight
It did not now desire
Since all it saw
Mirrored its mire

It wandered far away
Searching for a cure
That would make the inward eye
See the outside lure

But the creature accursed
Could never forget
That the eye and the world
Had always met