This poem reflects on whether the speaker's perspective, represented as a lens, is wide enough to understand complex topics like beauty and desecration, diversity and patterns, depth and purpose, right and wrong, and the distance between people with different ideas. The speaker hopes their perspective can shift and expand over time to gain a more informed understanding rather than be limited by a narrow lens.

1. is my lens wide enough
to take in the beauty

2. the desecration

3. the complexity

4. and simplicity

5. the regular

6. and the extraordinary…

7. is my lens wide enough
to capture diversity

8. random movement

9. patterns of exquisite
correlation …

10. is my lens
wide enough
to sense
shadow
and
depth

11. purpose and passion

12. dependence

13. and
autonomy
…

14. to know
the
difference
is
between
my
right and
lens
wrong
wide
enough

15. curved

16. and circular

17. straight

18. and narrow …

19. is my lens wide enough
to see you and me

20. the distance
between us

21. the ideas
that might
separate us forever …

22. may our
perspective
shift and change
stretch and expand
open and inform.

23. as those
too often
captured
by a too narrow lens,
we pray,
amen