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Sunday, November 21, 2010

One Is All I See
by Derrick Betting


perfection
is pretending-

a grain in a million
a billion
a trillion

but one
only one
I see
imperfection
a trick to your eye

illusion-

a grain in a million
this one
jagged-jaded
sun-burned brown

a gander beyond
normalness
reveals truth
in “one in a million”

pretending is
not
perfection
.


My Leaf Life
By Derrick Betting


Decades of growing-learning
Years passing
with every Month I-my color shed
the Days withering away
and every Hour
the Seconds don't seem like seconds
when you are falling...

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The colors of the world is changing, day by day.

Perplexing, it is, coming to the sudden realization that truth and all means of the term are suddenly as fluid as a simple covalent bond.  What is truth.(?)
Perplexing, for one.  Secondly, it would be under the same analysis that truth is relative to the eye of the preciever.  What you know and what is, is not always compatible, in so much that your truth, then becomes relative or objective. 

My objective truth is that pain, hurt, anguish, and life (for that matter) are all sitting front row as this masquerade of life starring myself, which seems to beat onward and belt loudly.

(It's not over till the fat lady sings)

Perhaps the "fat" lady has been belting tunes for ages only  to find that there is nobody there to listen.  Certainly, it's plausible and ready to assume that the "fat" lady could be singing, but only to reveal that with every ending we are readily introduced to and greater or equal evil.  Or, perhaps the "fat" lady is a parallel or euphemism for the end itself, and the singing is merely a celebration (of) the dark...(in) the dark.