For day 15 of OctPoWriMo, the following quote came up: “Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.” ~ Multatuli, which I find quite insightful and poetic in itself. It made me think about all of the things that I learned in history class when I was a kid that historians are now saying are not truth. But how can it be? I wonder. I don’t live in a communist state or a government controlled state (ermm, not certain that is currently true) so how can what I learned be untrue? Maybe some time I’ll check it out. In the meantime, I, of course, wrote a poem. This is day 2 for me.

History/Fact/Truth Years ago, I heard history is taught differently depending on your circumstances. Victors win battles losers fabricate facts, but why is history here changing? Facts I learned are now untrue although no war waged. Along with new math is there new history? I have no claim in this battle except desiring truth. Truth, a concept that should be beyond reproach but heeded differently these days as everyone/everything truths apart as if one fact cannot exist for all. Is it not true we all still need oxygen or does someone not? If the history I learned as a child is not true, then what of everything else? Pluto vanished from planet-sy. Spencer and Katharine were not soulmates. Santa does not exist. Facts have alternative facts. Maybe poetry is the one true thing. And dogs, always dogs.
There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth!