Narrow Margin - POTD
Narrow Margin 2-12-24 This or That Vol. 23 Poetry Contest - Edward Ibeh
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Narrow Margin
Between finite and eternity
A thin sharp wire divides,
Footsteps that often stumble,
Arms flailing,
Grasp for balance in pockets of sparse air
Staggering in storms, battered by choice,
Between the lines of saint and sinner,
Wild things or all the power of forgiveness,
Time challenged and eternal.
Between dances lightly on the razor’s maxims
In teetering seconds born in “or”
The narrow space between mayhem and peace
Superstition and shoulders of faith
Waking in the whisper between ebony shadows
And resplendent shouts of advent -
Margins between ambivalence’ bruised flesh
Or wide balms of equilibrium
Between fragile borders of mortality and spirit.
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