Many Sided

Many Sided

The truth is not always beautiful

Nor is it always cold or hard to accept

Very many of the things

That people argue over

Are actually many-sided truths

Whose distinguishing characteristic

Is that opposing ideas

Can both carry equal portions of truth

Like a gem that shines one color

When you hold it a certain way

And a different color

When you turn it another

Failure to recognize that truths

Are very often multi-sided is the source

Of much of the discontent in the world

And the reason why a very wise man once said,

'Say not “I have found the truth,”

But rather, “I have found a truth”

Say not “I have found the path of the soul”

Say rather, “I have met the soul

Walking on my path”'

Dewey Dirks