We speak in shades, not in solid forms,\u00a0\u00a0
In shadows, truth we seek.
Our eyes distort what norms conform,\u00a0\u00a0
Through lenses, frail and weak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Truth shines, illuminating night,
Its shine may hurt some eyes;
Those, whom offend the most it might,
Screen it in clever guise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Traversed through prisms of the minds,\u00a0\u00a0
Reflected off the mirrors of the souls,\u00a0\u00a0
On its relentless journey through Time-Space:\u00a0\u00a0
How will truth look, and what will it replace?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With fractured prisms of many minds,\u00a0\u00a0
And mirrors warped in brace\u00a0\u00a0
So passes truth through many souls,
In its relentless chase of grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet beams of truth, scattered as they may be,\u00a0\u00a0
Will splinter off an unadulterated ray,
Cast its true colors, and unchanged in any way,\u00a0\u00a0
Will reach those who, with open eyes, will see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Paul Pinkhasik, July 25, 2024
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We speak in shades, not in solid forms,\u00a0\u00a0In shadows, truth we seek.Our eyes distort what norms conform,\u00a0\u00a0Through lenses, frail and weak. Truth shines, illuminating night,Its shine may hurt some eyes;Those, whom offend the most it might,Screen it in clever guise. Traversed through prisms of the minds,\u00a0\u00a0Reflected off the mirrors of the souls,\u00a0\u00a0On its relentless journey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,652],"tags":[277,275,276,273,197,272,28,274],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-poetry","category-social","tag-distortion","tag-enlightenment","tag-human-nature","tag-perception","tag-philosophy","tag-reality","tag-social-commentary","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpoems.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}