Absolute Resolution (Black & White)
Long not for the surety of your youth
When absolutes were easy ground to stake:
Resolute positions absent of proof.
Introspection births new philosophies,
Incredulity that I was so sure,
Now aware of my mind’s monstrosities.
Black hats in westerns, bad luck from black cats,
Evil easily defined in pictures--
Such simple immemorial combat,
Basing bias on some scripture’s strictures
Social stains once paid such veneration
Often spring from absolute platitudes—
Witness: American segregation.
Was a time when polite society
Cherished this immoral privilege.
Racially defining society,
Which is, by any measure, sacrilege
We fall prey to baseless supposition
Showing certitude to justify deed
Seldom contrite of our own volition.
Chords of certainty birth arpeggios
Trailing our fervent youthful escapades
As certainty fades diminuendo.
Examines not just what but also why,
Begging youth's expectations be surpassed,
Asking what purpose Black and White belie
Examining everything astutely--
Give consideration to all the grays,
Measure the minutia resolutely.
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It seems
that things are a paler shade of gray ....
ron
"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to." W.C. Fields
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