Always

sorenbarrett

There will always be day and night

us or they, neither better than the other

Love and hate, black and white

crooked or straight, each a sister or a brother

 

There is large or small, male or female

run or crawl, after and before

Short and tall, pass or fail

nothing or all, peace and war

 

good or bad, life or death

happy or sad, truth or lies

satiated or hungry, suffocate or catch one's breath

thin or chunky, ignorant or wise

 

Yet all is gray in this world around us

tis they say a matter of perception

always was and always will be thus

so the law lays a view of deception

 

it's the emptiness of the pot that gives it, its use

have you forgot, without the one you can't have the other?

and without tenderness, there would be no abuse

so life renders us, no child without a father and a mother

  • Author: sorenbarrett (Online Online)
  • Published: August 31st, 2023 19:39
  • Category: Unclassified
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Comments5

  • Doggerel Dave

    I definitely got a feeling from your lines of the way our language renders our perception of reality; I do think you've made your point there, Soren. Smoothly done.
    Last line: Were you referring to production or socialisation?

    • sorenbarrett

      Thanks Dave for the read. It can be taken either way or even symbolically.

    • Goldfinch60

      Clever words soren showing that everything has an opposite, may we take the positive ones into our lives.

      Andy

      • sorenbarrett

        Thank you Gold for your kind words and review

      • orchidee

        I 'always' will say this is a good write SB.

        • sorenbarrett

          Thanks Orchi for the vote of confidence.

        • L. B. Mek

          causality as our anchor to worth
          our ending's curated
          by the beginnings we overcome
          yielding a broken start, to another's
          journey
          side by side, we lament
          that we may never influence or change
          while by our side, we neglect
          that which waits on us
          to cherish and appreciate...
          perspective
          a warping of distance
          too close
          and we're blinded by proximity
          too far
          and we're addicted to its horizon
          of possibility
          (a wonderfully thought provoking write, wise Poet)
          thank you!

        • Pop64

          as well without the writer, there would be no reader, no viewer, no interpreter. This, however, needs no interpretation as it is quite clear in its imagery with the truth of the ying and yang. Nicely penned!

          • sorenbarrett

            Thank you so much for your read and apt interpretation. So right no writer no reader well said.



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