Yang
I am the sun in an unsurpassed sky that shines
Your darkness melts under the light that my psyche implies
It stands behind waiting on the moon and the stars stand ready to be hurled to the sea
Does the moon want to be me
Or does it want what’s left of the sky who knows my mystery
I give chase to caustic deserts that champion cities
And fool them into submission while they search for water
That isn’t real
Though I can’t make atonement for the consequences done
Just as the rivers can’t run to the sea asking to be land
And the moon can’t collide with me
I am sunlight laughing – an incorrigible child
And at my will I inspire or defile
Do you bleed under my sun that has cracked open your soul
Now your darkness an ocean below
And my light moves away
Like an ethereal butterfly gaining purchase in a breeze
Moving it to safety
I am the yang to your yin
The light, the ascension through fingers of darkness that reach
In an unending cyclone we mutate
Seeking to destroy, seeking to acquiesce
Moving in perpetual opposition
For eternity.
Copyright 1999 by Lyssa Aja

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