James Moore Poet Narrative

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"The Nature if Light", 2018 original encaustic

The Nature of Light

Evil exists to confront good
Yet good doesn’t exist to confront evil
It simply is good, the all-good
At the basis of Life.

Is this too hard to understand?

How about death exists only
As the extermination of life
While life exists not in opposition to death
But simply a good in itself 
At the basis of Life.

Light and dark exist in opposition.

But darkness is merely the absence of light
While light is not the absence of dark;
One is a something (photons)
The other a nothing (lack of photons).

So light and dark 
And good and evil exist in opposition
But in each case one is creative and primary
And the other reflective and reactionary.

In other words, one will remain
When the other has faded
But then again when there is one
There will be the other…

(10/8/26)

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