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They say opposites attract, well, what better opposites are there than the left and right hemispheres of your own brain. Imagine the arguments they must have.
Opposites Attract
The left side of my brain wrote a letter to my right side, just the other day.
It read “Dear Mr Righty, it seems we’re exactly different in every single way.
I, the Left, I do directions, do logic, do math- compute like a hawk.
Whilst you, well, you can, like, see things, guess and, well, listen to people talk.”
“I, the Left, can do the memory stuff, yeah, I remember the great math discoveries I made.
I made whist you were wrecking the organisation of the paints while you played.
Even though you’ve suffered, laughed and joked just like a once proud friend
I feel we should go our separate ways, I’ve calculated our friendships at an end”
Then the right wrote back in highlighted yellow pen. “It seems you forgot this morning
You weren’t hit by the car, you said it was intuition, but it was me, giving a warning.
Or the time you were stuck with how to draw that weird thought for your math lecture.
It was me, your close right friend, simply making it look like delicate architecture.”
“I think we’re like co-joined twins with our own ideal, our thought, our principle.
Against each other we’d create a war, but together, we’re invincible.”
The left side of my brain wrote a letter to my right side, just the other day.
They shook hands, hugged and decided not to leave my head, they decided to st
15 Feb 2016
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