UNIVERSAL TRUTH
I have spent my life
Arms outstretched
Looking for truth
“and the world
Shall be better for this”
Artist, author
Poet, historian
Religious seeker
But just when I find myself
Close enough to touch it
It changes
Like water
Like mist
Like dreams
And the Universal Truth
I have striven toward
Is singular and unique
Variations of a tune
From player to player
Particular, peculiar
Not just from person to person
But from moment to moment
Echoes, echoes
Echoes and shadows
Ringing laughter
From Schrodinger’s ghost
Slogging through the fog
Of our private universes
Intersecting only in theory
Perception not reality
Perception is reality
Verities twinkle
Like distant stars
That may have imploded
An eon ago
Nothing is constant
It has always been the same.
Troy D. Smith, 2016
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Universal Truth
Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois, and is currently teaching history at Tennessee Tech.
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It occurs to me that you might be interested in checking out the Baha'i Faith....One of their tenets is the independent investigation of truth. You might enjoy a look at the chronology of the Baha'is here - http://bahai-library.com/chronology and this is also another good site - http://hearttoheart.net/
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