Shades of Gray

A fusion of black and white-
Readily accessible to the masses,
Yet elusive to intellectual thought.
To be forced to ponder its various shades of ordinary,
It's bland and murky state of existence,
Is a painful conformity.
So we, with minds disquiet,
Separate the whole of the matter into its parts.
To attempt to be passionately accurate about it.
And expose it for what it really is...
Black and White.
A gift, not a curse.
Nothing in between.

~rk