After The Lie

For a while I could not lose this childhood spectre

I felt others saw it too

Now I notice a change in the way that people look at me

And how those people look to me

I see they're not so clever

I like them better for it too

And one still more

For now I see more clearly

Many things that passed me by

Like Paul the visionary

I see things in a different light

For now I know what course to take

Now at last I find a meaning in scenes of life

That made no sense to me before

And the complicated structures of scientific knowledge

Once just mad, they seem so simple now

And one I've known since childhood

She has new meaning for me too

These things are good

For now I see more clearly

Many things that passed me by

Like Paul the visionary

I see things in a different light