Truth, Again*.

 
(for Tony Lawson)
 
It is neither
this nor
that

Neither
round
neither flat

Neither
thin
neither fat

Neither
left
neither right

Neither
fight
neither flight

Neither
dark
neither bright

neither friend
neither
foe

neither now
nor
long ago

*

Nor science
nor
philosophy

Magic
religiosity

Neither is it
east nor
west

It is neither
cursed
nor blest

Neither is
it good
nor bad

Nor is it
blithe
nor sad

It is both
rich
and bare

Neither
here and
neither there

And yet is
found just
everywhere

And greets
us all
but everyday

Strewn around
in
every way

In every
night
and every day

*

In body
mind spirit
and soul

End to end
pole
to pole

In pain
and joy
in grief
and smiles

In proximity
or
distal miles

It is not far
It is not
near

Nor in
courage
nor in fear

In surging
seas
nor sandy
lees

Nor in war
and
nor in peace

Nor in
bits and
nor in parts

Nor in guile
and nor in
arts

nor in
black and
nor in white

Nor in gender
nor in
caste

Nor in
present
nor in past

Nor in
nor out
Pandora’s
Box

Beyond the
pale
of paradox

*

Nor in
darkness
nor in light

Nor in
culture
nor in race

nor in doting
cringe
nor grace

Nor too soon
and none
too late

Nor in
prophecy
nor in fate

*

Eschew
Elaborate
Fineries

Temptings
of such
binaries

*

Ever hid
in plainest
sight

In mild
transcendence

burning
bright

Bathed in
dusk

ethereal
light

In body
mind spirit
and soul

End to end
pole
to pole

The Truth
beyond
such human
bounds

The Truth
above anthropic
pounds

The Truth
is the Whole
 
Not a means
Nor a goal
It is just
The Whole
 
* Stanzas for a Post-Truth World
 

© R.Kanth 2022

Professor Rajani Kanth, is Author of Coda (A Novel), A Day in the Life (Novel), and Expiations (Verse), and Farewell to Modernism (Political Economy Tract).