The Alchemy of Opposites

Life would throw us together? She would do this to us?

 

You are invulnerable as I am vulnerable

You are innocent as I am irreversibly down-trodden

Your destiny is high-born and privileged

As my fate has been a market of humility

 

So then how can I express my internal feelings?

As our eyes cross for a brief second along the way

You are the dream of time and burnished gold

The diamond hue of the bright universe’s integrity!

 

As I am the lonely and poor and reflecting moon

You in your illustrious Noon of youth, so marked

With passion and controlled determination

Me with my nomadic subservience to a fleeting life

 You grand and female, me pitiably masculine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your womb the power of a thousand generations

My seed the wasted protein of doomed limitation

Your greatness of lengths thoughts and heighted deeds

Contrasts strangely with my exercised poverty.

 

1.1.2012. 19:25

 

Reviews

[Evita]

Well this is a veritable contrast between the sexes;)

I can't help but love your idealism of the feminine and subordination of the masculine...its the feminist in me... But overall, your imagery and idea are superb, I truly enjoyed reading the beauty of your words...

[Prophecy]

Oh wow thanks.

[Christina]

This is so lovely, I loved the comparison and contrast within this poem. Your word choice was excellent and this poem has such a velvet lyrical quality to it, it pulled me in immediately. Well penned.

[Prophecy]

@ Evita, from a psycho-emotional level, I really appreciate your reviews in particular, you touch the heart of my poetic intention with your keen insight.

[Prophecy]

@ Simi, a woman who can force me to write poetry, is my friend. Now if only I was her lover...

[SimiGirl]

There is beauty in the way you feel about the woman in this poem.
I loved it, thank you.

[Prophecy]

Yes I can agree with you on this!

[Prophecy]

I shall have to take your word for it Trish!

[patricia]

Opposite attract! loved this. Now reverse it! They say everything you see in others is also in yourself! You certainly sound like class to me. Thankyou.