I believe in my third eye
Linear perspectives play tricks on my usual eyes
Distant streets always converges to a single point
An optical illusion my brain is well-adapted to
However, lately, I’ve been struck by another illusion
I’ve been reading about the Doppler effect
f = (c+/-v_r)/(c+/-v_s) * f_0
Yesterday, I heard the siren of the fire truck next door
Whine rose in pitch
then fell as its engine sped away
Light from distant stars appear redder
— Hubble says the universe is expanding.
When our spacecraft Odysseus sped away
from terrestrial tracking stations
towards the void that predictably became the moon
I had faith in the physics of measured Doppler frequency shifts
We landed safely.
If physics equals reality and
reality can only be seen by my third eye,
then by the transitive property,
my third eye can see physics.
