A Writer's Cramp Entry - Seeing is not always believing... |
Perspective A term for one's point-of-view Sometimes literal, other times figurative Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual Everyone's 'take', just a little bit different Go back to the roots And it means 'looking through' As if there were a lens A filter A pane of glass Between the perceived and the observer But even when the intervening distance Appears empty, unobstructed Still there things that color Distort Alter the reality Like heat shimmers rising from a summer road Just as each of us Is the sum of our experiences So, too, are our experiences Changed by some of 'us' The mind, the heart, the soul Cannot help but add their voices To the cold objective reality around us For better, or for worse Best to remember That each perspective is different That none of us corners the market on truth That, perhaps, the mind of man Will never be broad and strong and clear enough To see all things objectively Remember the blind men and the elephant Each of us holds some piece of the whole That may never be seen Without someone else's piece That fills in the hole we cannot see Because of what we are looking through. |