Black & White

 Didn't they say, the world is all Yin and Yan',

And that is how it all began.

The stage was set with mindsets indelible,

For the onset of our biggest mistake perceivable.

The result is here for all of us to see,

Affecting us all, unfazed by which, you just can't be.

Be it a job interview, hospital emergency, college admission, skill evaluation or a simple school examination,

The thin line between right and wrong, valid/non valid, good/bad, applicable/non-applicable, is perhaps the most ludicrous demarcation.

How despicable can you sound when you say "This is wrong and this is right,

For these are the rules and you can't change them, with all your might."

Crude, inept is our judgement skill, redolent of cruelty,

When verdicts observe the stark, solemn law of plain duality,

Yet thoughtless our thinking is, devoid of compassion,

For the innumerable wronged by this iniquitous rule of adjudication.

How weak a foundation this law of black and white has in reality,

Surely the makers of the same have not studied the concept of relativity.

So let us not be blind like them my friend,

And may not our sense of just decision face a dead end,

Open your eyes not just to see black as night and white as day,

For there are several in-between, shades of grey.