Poetic

Words are all I have...

But I sometimes forget that seeing comes before words, like how a little child looks and recognizes before he or she can speak. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. We explain that world with words but words can never usurp the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled because the way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe.