Polarity

Polarity at play

We open a window
A bright new day,
Lay our heads to rest
In evenings light
No judgement in sight

Yet when inside ourselves
We find such polarities
As day and night...
We turn away
Try to fight
Life....

How many nights
Have I cried into the sky
Begging for some clarity
Denying my polarity
Denying life
And death.

I parade myself for all to see
A portrait of such sanity
Yet in my depths
There stirs a mist
Of uncertainty
Insanity....

You'll laugh indeed
Some may prod at me
You'll tell me I'm crazy
For a moment of raging

But will you step back
Will you put my pieces together
To find the masterpiece of me
Will you admire my disarray
For its uncertain poetry?

Or will you scatter me
Into the raging fire
Curse me to the abyss
For showing something
In society is amiss?

I could have been a masterpiece
Had someone taught me how
I could have shone in splendour
But look at me now, tender.

Broken
Scattered wastelands
Of someone who might have been
Someone worth a da Vinci dream.

Hazel Phillips Dube aka Dancing Rivers