You are fighting
Others bickering
To pick a side
We're told there are Two
Sides of everything
Once you know there is more
Will you be just gone
Into a Silent oblivion?
The irony of a realization!
Or will you choose
One out of random two?
The most relevant two?
The most important two?
Or maybe a few?
This paradox burdens me
More than the divide of
A Yes or No
More than the urgency
of a decision on hold
And the heaviest of them all
Is that the others don't
See more than Two
Sides, possibilities
I envy the simplicity
of their comprehension.
-Al
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Author:
Alan R (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: February 18th, 2024 03:08
- Category: Reflection
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Reading this reminded me of something that I heard on the radio last night, in a programme about George Eliot and her characters, one of which discussed was Dorothea. I have done a quick search for the segment, but the programme is very long. I have found this one, which may or may not be the one that I recall hearing: "Particularly if you're not reading very well, and particularly at the beginning, she can feel a bit two-dimensional because of her moral strength. But the novel is her discovering the three-dimensionality of her own life and of other people's reality. That's what's happening, that's her character arc: that she starts off with this rather black-and-white view of the world and of humanity, but, as she achieves maturity, her maturity is not about sexuality and marriage; it's about the multidimensionality of being human, of recognizing the reality of other people."
Thanks for your poem, Alan.
Thanks for reading. I find your response very inspiring and motivational. Thanks alot for the story as well...Multidimensionality of being human, indeed ...I am experimenting a lot with this.
Have a wonderful day!
Sometime (as poet and medium) we touch the essence of a multisensory inner dimension !
I believe you
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