The Ultimate Equation a la Escher

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Imagine you could see yourself as God

Sees you.  Imagine that your eyes could see

As if they might go far beyond an awed

Enlightenment in God’s eternity.

You look at self with eyes that self perceives

As truly as you are, both God and you

Converged in insight.  Fused discernment cleaves

The two of you together in a view

That marries both, or more than marries, one

As one completely, fullest impression

That suddenly allows the final stun,

Impression making utter expression.

  What witness, though, could grasp this perfect sense

    Of such perfection in its perfect tense?

~ Phillip Whidden