Shades of Gray

They say that everything in life
Is simply black and white;
That it's this way or that way,
Nothing in between;
No shades of gray,
No middle ground to stand on.
But life is not like that at all;
It isn't all just good or bad;
It's not always just yes or no;
It is much more complicated than that.
Love and hate can coexist;
Not one of us is all good or all bad;
We all have flaws, imperfections,
And it really is not all one way or the other.
Everyone is selfish to some degree, and
All of us can be selfless for our own reasons.
So there are middle grounds,
Shades of gray between the stark white and jet black;
In fact, the reality is that the world is all different shades of gray;
No up, not down, but in between.
No white; no perfection.
No black; no complete chaos without redeem.
Only grays.


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