Perception

What is correct?
When history is nothing more
Than five people’s stories of an event,
Each different from the others;
Some overlapping, but none the same.

Where is this clarity of truth
The absolute truth in any matter?

Perception changing by time and bitterness;
Hindsight molding the folding tales;
Friends adding opinions to the pool of consciousness-

All blended into a new history; a new truth.

Five different stories
And which one is the absolute truth?
To each, their own is-
But to the others?
What of the rest of the
world trying to see THE truth?

Perhaps all are truth.
Perhaps none are truth.

~Anahbird~
September 21, 2005