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August Photo Prompt: Perspectives

  • lotenwriting
  • Aug 5
  • 1 min read

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An ancient king,

educated, well-read, cultured.

Ruthless.

 

Freedom fighter or terrorist?

Feminist hero or suppressor of the working classes?

 

Which side of the glass do we look through

to see a true reflection?

Or does the truth lie somewhere

in the place between?

That liminal space where everything

and nothing

collide.

 

The best.

The worst.

Two sides of the same face.

Where past and present blur

the lines of reality.

Rough edges smoothed

erased.

Achievements stolen, underplayed

forgotten.

 

Can we ever find the truth

even of ourselves?

Father, brother, friend

Sister, mother, daughter

A hundred facets face the world

but which of them is real?

 

Names on a page,

descriptions in a book,

actions recorded but what motive?

Revenge or good judgement,

for people or profit,

posterity or glory?

 

And in the museums,

the survivors fix their stony gaze

as onlookers ponder

what wonders they have seen.

What bloodshed?

If they could speak,

would they brag of fame and fortune

or whisper quietly

about the insignificance

of humanity?

For what is one short human life

compared

to theirs?

 
 
 

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