Seeing Is Believing

Seeing Is Believing is a poem that I wrote to explore that age old question of 'who are we'; are we what we think we see, are we seen by others as we see them, does it matter if you are other than what you see yourself to be?


   There are three stanzas of eight lines each. The even lines have 8 syllables each, the odd lines have 6, with a "last word rhyme scheme" per stanza of ABCBDEFE. The meter is "da DUM da DUM..." for all lines.


   The structure of three stanzas has been broken up into three chapter breaks, but each stanza has had its lines split-apart in order to preserve the intent (the pacing) of each line, and thus each line may be given its own page; there may be instances, however, where managing the evolution of the poem in your mind, some lines have been split into multiple pages, or, multiple lines of a stanza remain on the same page (making it so a chapter is not necessarily equal to the count of lines of a stanza).