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Leonardo da Vinci’s The Virgin of the Rocks embraces chiaroscuro to evoke mystery and ambiguity, illustrating the liminal beauty of what lies betwixt and between.

Poetic form: The Tesla 3–6–9

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. ~Nikola Tesla.

Chiaroscuro

Backlit in life’s shadows –
the exacting burden of responsibilities –
you are lost.
Bathed in light amongst shadows
of trials and tribulations that
internal hope defrosts;
one can but surmise 
your inner strength,
as the light bends to reveal the cost.

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