Ambiguity And Cheshire Cats Poem by David Whalen

Black and white…wrong and right
Strangers in the night

Nothings black… To me anymore
Nor anything totally white

Things so simple… at one point in time
Seem now… not so clear at all to me

Ambiguity has stolen in…with the advance of years
taken black and white… and has set them free

The righteousness in this…
the certainty of that

That “carved in stone” attitude
Is now quite “old hat”

Now things are imbued with ambiguity
And I’m really quite all right with that

Once rigid and unforgiving
Now flexible and more giving

Life itself to me…
ambiguous in the living

Has now become…
Somehow become …

As Ambiguous as…
“ The Cheshire cat”