Truth

i remember learning

facts and opinions

that one was absolute

the other, subject to change

but,

as i've grown older

i see now

that was just an exercise

to follow fiction and nonfiction

so that which the world believed

would be identified as truth

while my reality faded

why not?

was never good enough

until i became "educated"

but,

why not?

was what you tried to erase in the beginning

and in the end

it is what you praise

i've learned now

Truth is what "I" believe

what the Self believes

the World just gets to the Self before we can

fact

opinion

they are

whatever you decide they are

so long as the world agrees

I know there must be an Eternal Truth

But,

For humanity,

We prefer our own kind

so we twist the "facts"

facts are opinions

opinions are facts

fiction is reality

reality is fiction

there is no difference

if we don't want there to be