This or That

Don’t gussy this up.

Life is gritty and grim
and
glorious and gratifying.

It’s all this and that –
fluctuating and crystallizing
so freely
so unexpectedly.

We stress and suffer
when we attempt to pin
something down
to make it
this or that.

Something reminds us
that when we are believing
It is this
OR
It is that
It will indeed appear that way to us.

It knows that it is both.
No matter what we tell it.

We change.
Something tries to assist and smiles.