Susan Manley Poet Rhyme

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Reality, Wow What a Concept

Reality, wow what a concept
lifes provable facts
those incontrovertible truths
things that stick out and not fall in the cracks

Its subject to interpretation you see
describing the elephant for the blind
this part the leg,
that a tail, this part a trunk!! Divine!

For reality takes an observer
to set itself in the track
if that tree fell in the woods with no one to hear
did it make a sound of a crack?

Without perception it's all contention
if it ever existed at all
and we are all running around with vivid imaginations on ground
till incontrovertible evidence is found

See it, touch it, document away
till the item in question is in decay
or maybe even obliterated away
the observation itself causing the obliteration to stay

And so that was how faith was born
for people to believe in others known truths
we didn't have to experience it first hand
we just had to trust like a youth

And from that comes charlatans 
who mangle that truth for cash
and make the world a caricature
and history rewritten despite past

With no firm understanding of what is
or firm understanding of what was
people lose their compass
and look to god above

Reality, wow what a concept. - Artimus  (C) 10/11/2023 Susan Manley

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Silent One October 21, 2023 at 3:01 AM This is an excellent and profound read and thought provoking.. I will process it fully after reading it a few time.. great poetry Susan.. Susan Manley October 21, 2023 at 9:17 AM Thanks Silent One. Huge praise coming from you! I ponder these things. And try to analyse them in poetry. Let my subconious sort it out. Its not perfect... and maybe thats coming. But its a start.