black & white

"Dichotomies" ~ a quasi-poem
[originally posted as a Facebook note on 11.14.08]

I think people
get so hung up
on dichotomies,
on good and bad,
on right and wrong,
that they fail to realize
that lies are not always evil,
that hope is not always false,
that love is not always perfect,
that change is not always a mistake,
that tradition is not always exclusive,
that family is not always to be trusted,
that the future is not always predictable,
that giving up is not always the only choice;
because they just don't really know any better,
they tend not to know that what's best for them
is not always what feels the most comfortable,
what appears to be the least frightening,
what inspires the greatest confidence,
what induces the least dissension,
what looks the most familiar;
they see the black & white,
and they panic, and they
fail to consider the grey;
and now, of course,
as I usually do,
I digress.

~ Siesta Lingo