The poem “Pull and Push” was inspired by the art piece “Deflated” by Anatol Knotek. The work features a deflated balloon labeled “ego”.
Inflate the ego at your own risk lest the air go to the head with results that few pursue when doom arrives at the end the race is run against the wind lifting those who seek to fly the balloon rising high before falling to the ground pushed by storms that twirl within a gravity spun from the soul the black hole light can’t escape when assumptions consume grace the detonation comes at last between the pull and the push more a whimper than a blast a fitting end that few admit.
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