Reality

What is life?

Reality

The beauty of perfection

cannot be denied,

and yet perfection

cannot exist

for in reality

it is a simple perception.

A human construct

built upon the fragility

of man’s preposterous

ambiguity.

His inability to separate

right from wrong,

truth from fiction,

fantasy and dream

from solid reality.

His inability to understand

and control the universe

and to make it

in his own image.

His need to see

what he chooses to see

and to judge it so.

 

18/12/14

Author's Note

Reviews

[Matching Socks]

Managing perceptions is so much more difficult than managing reality.
Perceptions are sometimes more honest than what we think is reality, because it's how others see us.
It's all about Optics in life... I love that song btw.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Yes I agree, thanks Ana

[jacob erin-cilberto]

we didn't make ourselves in our own image...someone else made us...and we certainly have ended up with a skewed version of perfection...

nicely done.

jacob

[John Alexander McFadyen]

Ha I prefer the Dawinist view on our creation as it is more credible. But hold perhaps that is me falling into the same trap. I think our current perceptions will be seen in the fullness of time as akin to believing the world was flat. Thanks Jacob.

[Lizardo]

Wonderful poem! it describes reality as it is, I really like everything about, this is really good.
Great work!