Today’s poem is a focus on duality, inspired by the word solstice. Enjoy.
My soul is halfway in shadow,
and halfway in light.
Standing between night and day,
depending on how I turn,
I can see no end of either.
I behold an enduring brightness,
or I perceive a far darkness.
Either I squint against sunlight,
or I struggle to glimpse in black.
One is not good, the other bad –
(avoid that trap of understanding) –
They are both as themselves pure.
The long and the short of it is simple:
allow both to orbit as I stand,
preserving the eternal solstice.
a simple man 