Which Side of Darkness

By WordWulf, 15th Jan 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/gxgb_fvc/
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First came the twins
ebony and ivory, dark and light
seven winds between them
and all that came to exist
water and ice, fire and smoke
Earth and Heaven, rainbows on the horizon

Which Side of Darkness

First came the twins
ebony and ivory, dark and light
seven winds between them
and all that came to exist
water and ice, fire and smoke
Earth and Heaven, rainbows on the horizon

Art is no sacrifice of dawn
Heaven’s pins, stars of light
enhance, define, mantle of night
Nothing so beautiful
as Heaven worn thin
ivory, ebony do begin

Between dark and light
are wars waged and love made
A seed nestled in the Earth
nurtured and secure
peeks out, startled awake
no less or more alive than before

Ah liquid night, Mother’s womb
daytime fear of water
We human value sight beyond
ignore our other senses
yet close our eyes each night
wondrous dark halo of sleep

Our Creator, Maker of extremes
truth and reality lie between
mystery seen as darkness, yet exists only
beneath the facade our eyes perceive
a shell; what lies inside
Is one magick, the other illusion

The innocence of youth
some perceive as light, as if aging
is an excursion into darkness
Both are true, of course
knowledge multi-hued
spectrums of enlightenment

Finally, lightness and darkness weigh the same
Youth fades and age enhances
People are not black and white
though they name themselves as such
When there is no death, there is no birth
an unequal universe

Well, these twins divided
are never far apart
defined by their imperfections and differences
Beware human entitlement
these things named, made by Gods
coexistent, dependent upon chaos

Meet the author

WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)