Darkness and Light
From a rigid world of concrete and steel,
Angles exact and order absolute;
Of darkness complete and shadowless light,
Unseparated by dusk and dawn;
Of primary colors and round positive numbers
Where symmetry rules and the blemish flees comprehension;
Of good and evil,
No quarter given and none asked.
Waking to the imperfect,
Terrified at that which is not whole.
Shades innumerable fill awkward angles
And fashion beings in gray tone.
Where is this place? I ask,
As absent order I am lost.
What mad scheme creates such hell?
Perfect in its imperfection
Ordered in its chaos;
Unfinished yet complete,
The partial becomes the whole.
Light brushes darkness as the kaleidoscope turns,
All form transitory, all without judgment,
All free to assume the shape most pleasing,
Then disperse to assume another.
Unbound, life and beauty pass harmless to every reach.
I the fool arrive late, yet here am I.
Copyright © Steve Harris | Year Posted 2014
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