1 Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind,
Since leaving you, my vision exists only inside my mind, Ever since I left you, I can't see anything without it being filtered through my thoughts about you, can't stop thinking bout u
it's messing w my vision
2 And that which governs me to go about,
And that which governs me to move around And my mind that controls how I move through the world my mind runs the show now
3 Doth part his function, and is partly blind,
Splits its function and is partly blind, is partially splitting its attention and can't see things clearly, half blind to everything Wordplay: “part his function”
The eye both 'departs' (leaves) and divides ('parts') its function; it's a pun suggesting both abandonment and fragmentation.
4 Seems seeing, but effectually is out:
Seems seeing, but is effectively not working: looks like it's taking things in but it's actually not registering anything, looks like it works but it doesn't
5 For it no form delivers to the heart
For it delivers no clear form to my heart Because nothing I see gets transmitted to my heart in any clear way nothing reaches my heart clear
6 Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch,
Of bird, of flower, or shape which it does catch, whether it's a bird, a flower, or any shape my eye happens to catch, birds flowers shapes don't matter
7 Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Of his quick objects my mind has no part, my mind doesn't process these fleeting things I see, my brain doesn't register it
8 Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch:
Nor does his own vision hold what it captures: and vision doesn't keep hold of what it's caught, can't keep a hold on anything
Volta The volta shifts from describing the eye-mind split to naming its cause: you have become the obsessive replacement for all visual input.
9 For if it see the rud’st or gentlest sight,
For if it sees the rudest or gentlest sight, Whether my eye looks at something rough or beautiful, see ugly or see beautiful
10 The most sweet favour or deformed’st creature,
The most sweet face or deformed creature, the loveliest face or the ugliest creature, gorgeous or grotesque
11 The mountain, or the sea, the day, or night:
Whether it is an enormous peak, a vast body of water, bright sun, or complete darkness: mountains, oceans, daylight, darkness, mountains seas sun stars
12 The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.
A crow or a dove—my mind transforms them both into your likeness. crows, doves, everything reshapes itself to look like you. everything looks like u
13 Incapable of more, replete with you, Incapable of more, replete with you
Incapable of more, full of you, Unable to hold anything else, completely filled with you, only u in my mind now
14 My most true mind thus maketh mine untrue.
My most true mind makes my sight untrue. my obsession with you makes everything I see a lie. can't trust what i see anymore