Only with the heart that one can see rightly.

  Only with the heart that one can see rightly.

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential 

is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

Overlooking the La Mesa Lake

View from a floodgate bridge 

A tranquil pond below the spillway is an excellent fishing ground 

for enthusiasts. A biker negotiates a wooden bridge.

Only with the heart that one can see rightly.*

       On-the-spot Composition at the La Mesa Eco Park
                              by Dr Abe V Rotor 2012

How fleeting time through the generations passed,

     The lake once full, Narcissus idly on its shore,

Waits the nymph Echo passionately in vain ‘til cast,

     Hushing the trees, crying for Narcissus no more.       

If love is blind and lovers cannot see, so with beauty;

     In Song to Celia’s drink to me only with thine eyes

Makes one sober and blind, bathed in prodigious plenty;

     The heart no longer spoken of the soul soon dies.  

Tragedies from wastefulness and indifference tell us

     Often late when the wrath of our own making

Strikes in our sleep and the young innocents.  Aghast!

     Listen, listen to the Four Horsemen thundering. 

* “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince