Through Candid Eyes

They push you down rabbit holes,

They show you stuff to surmise,

They seek your intrinsic roles,

Seeing through your candid eyes.

With concepts they view as right,

They let you familiarize,

But they hide from open sight,

Leaving you much to cognize.

They even conflict in things,

You wish to destigmatize,

Their poising troubadour sings,

To reconceptualize.

But they do not mean to try,

To jar you or jeopardize,

In their blemishes they cry,

Seeing through your candid eyes.

Author's Note

Who could they be?

Reviews

[AJNJ]

This is definitely our thoughts and the internal process within. You clearly speak about our own introspection of ourselves. The way we create and edit ourselves. The way we raise and demolish ourselves. The conflict within comes out with great clarity to me. Our thoughts make us, our thoughts break us. Our dialogue with ourselves is continuous. Candid or conflicting, beuatiful or blemished, our thoughts are us.

A great poem, my friend and one I enjoyed greatly. Your thoughts are clear as crystal to me here! Please keep penning.

[Archishman Rick]

Many thanks for your great review, Mr. Peston! I appreciate that you so elegantly saw through this piece with your candid eyes. Inner thoughts in general, personas with conflicting perspectives, while they make the journey more hurdled, they also make it sweeter to overcome. Great analysis sir. Have a good one.
Kind regards.

[AJNJ]

These conflicts significant, I'd like to add. One emerges stronger.

You're most welcome 🤗

[John the Baptist]

I am wondering the same thing. This well rhymed offering seems to be a criticism of people the speaker thinks are limiting him, or maybe society in general. Whoever they are, they seem to have a certain amount of power, or they could not cause the alleged disruption. It makes me think of internet trolls, though I could be way off base.

[Archishman Rick]

Pardon my late reply, good sir, but thank you very much for your review. Your discernment of the basic tone of this piece is wisely accurate. As for who you relate "they" with, it's an interesting take. Hope you have been well.
Cheers.

[Papaya]

This one is open to so many interpretations. :)
I like a multi faceted poem that allows me to decide what it means to me.
I can almost see this as being the truth of journalism. Allowing us to see what's real vs what's recently emerged as fake news.

[Archishman Rick]

Thanks a ton for this great review Ms. Ana :D I'm glad how you have interpreted this one in your own beautiful way l and added another facet to it. Media and news propagandaga have indeed been a long time modifier of certain truths.

[Papaya]

You're welcome. :)

[Chris Shaw]

Inner thoughts. All OK when the scales are balanced but when it weighs in their favour, can become destructive and a pain in the bum. Well penned Archisman Rick.

Chris

[Archishman Rick]

Thanks a whole lot for your words, Ms. Chris. Fully acknowledged. Take care and regards.

[Kari Rakitan]

It takes a lot of effort to truly see through someone else's eyes. Though I try to take the time to do so, I don't trust that others are taking the same effort to see through my eyes. Our personal experiences will always cloud how we see things, and some people have too many cataracts to see things as I would like them to. I believe that most people who see things as I wish to present them are either very young, have an open-minded attitude towards life, or have had similar experiences to mine.

[Archishman Rick]

Excuse my late reply. Your words have presented a great, solid interpretation of this poem, and I agree that we shall find many cataracted visions, and personal experiences do come in the way in this context. Due to this I feel, even when people do endeavour to see through others' eyes, they do so while on their own shoes. That I believe is a crucial aspect to understand in order to actually get somewhere veritable. But I feel they miss this, and it could be anyone. I hope you and the people who are able to see things as you truly wish to present can keep inspiring each other.
Take care and regards.

[barleygirl]

I have no idea what your poem refers to, but it reminds me of the way many facebook memes during this prez-election run-up will state something completely hunky-dory, something I would normally click "like" about, but when framed in the ongoing political debate (which is very contentious), one can see these memes for the divisive rhetoric that is hidden between the lines. Like saying "All Lives Matter" is considered by some to be another way of saying "Black Lives Matter" is an unnecessary bunch of BS. I get to where I don't "like" anything where I smell a rat! To me, it seems these memes are created, depending on the masses to see things thru candid eyes, when the underlying intent is political. Now I suppose you might set me straight about what your poem is REALLY saying *wink! wink!* Fondly, Margie

[Archishman Rick]

I did worry that this poem might come off as a bit too cryptic, but in fact behind it is a simpler implication. Of course I am all open to any of your intelligent interpretations. Your fondly illustrious reviews give away hints of your charm as a writer. I find it amusingly endearing how you say I might "set you straight" haha. Before getting to the poem.. about the meme culture, I understand where you are coming from, although I've never bothered much with memes, but, while some of them are playfully amusing, some are quite ruthless. But I feel these 'memes' themselves are pretty candid in what they mean, you either grasp it or don't.. I don't think they can carry 'hidden' rhetorics. Now, you make a sound interpretation of the piece with political references, illusioning the masses etc. However, the default intention is to imply that "they" are not really external agents, but actually reside inside the "you" talked of. Their existence is intangible but palpable. "They" are curious, showing the host different concepts and possibilities, but they are often conflicting resulting in counterproductive output. Sharing the same candid eyes of "you", "they" take turns, or even melee to see through them. Still they understand and lament the predicaments they bring you. "They" are meant to be the different personas seeing through the same candid eyes as "you". Or could they be... ghosts? Maybe haha.
Regards.

[barleygirl]

I have to confess, I can barely understand what you shared here in this response, even tho it's intended to bring clarity. But still, I appreciate your being always willing to expand on something to help people understand your intent better (((HUGS)))

[Archishman Rick]

Thanks again :) Acknowledge and appreciate your words. Best wishes.