Saturday, October 13, 2012

Food4Thought: Perspective


Perspective

A closed blade hides behind
Information and keys,

Like power hiding behind
Wise men and guards,

Or knights awaiting orders
From the intellects and affluentials.

Perhaps the items reflect an assassin
Targeting the informed and the informer.

But what if we’re looking at it wrong?
What if the order is different

And the keys are behind
The knife and the knowledge,

Implying that if we want to open doors
We must first have power and intelligence,

Or if treasure is to be unlocked
Geniuses and brutes must together lead.

Yet we can
Rotate this again

So that knowledge is guarded
By the keys and the knife,

Implying that secrets are only found
At the cost of bloodshed,

Or the truth resides
In both the lowly guards and the noble knights.

See how a slight shift
Alters one’s perspective?

It’s like someone told me long ago,
“Just because it makes sense,
Doesn’t mean it’s right.”

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