Always, it's a toss up
Between the stars of the heavens and the dirt of the earth
Between illusion and spirit
Altruism wins
And fruits serenity sweet
and fragrant
Expediency gains upper hand
While maimed bodies twitch by the wayside
Spurting dark red blood
Pleasure feigned and temporal
Success wafts acrid smoke
Peace flees
Only agony reigns
As a faithful mirror reflects
Her very own demon.
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| The devil as portrayed in the movie, The Ninth Gate. Photo credit: Deviantart.com |
- ARIEL MURPHY
While a bit on the dark side, I like the vivid images and use of our language! We all have our demons.
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I Get By With a Little Help From My Friends
Dark and Light/ yin and yang pleasure and pain/ truth and fiction / "you" and "me"/ matter and anti-matter/ positive and negative [forces, poles, ions, thoughts] - Duality exists everywhere, It that just the way the universe IS, or is there a 'reason' behind it all?
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