I grasped a stone

I grasped a stone
And felt it to be Real
Then I realized
I was chasing the Wind

I observed a Tree
It's branches outstretched
When I discovered
It was observing me

I looked to the Star
and immensity of Space
And I found
I was as vast Inside

I looked to the Globe
And it's vast curved Round
And found my eye
Itself was that World

Something Solid, something hollow
Became One in an instant
Just for a moment
I grasped the Whole

The running brook
Was the leaping doe
The cloud filled sky
The plain dotted by towns

Illusion, I found, was difference
Nature's accidents encoded in Man
Made me seem other
Than you or the sky

But Discovery wrought some miracle
Awakened me to another Dream
Asleep, yet aware of sleeping
I broke through to the Day

And rested on that lonely shore
Where only the bravest souls meet
And found Solace in Knowing
Is it's own Reward