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Abyss

by George Hoerner

images mirrored
in the flux of time
zero and infinity
the edges of the abyss
the mirror tilts on edge
and we have our time
no longer recognizing
extended reflections

the abyss where
zero and infinity meet
like all reflections
good and bad
right and wrong
life and death
black and white
God and Satan

neither exists
without the other
the mirror tilts back
and we see ourselves
both lay side by side
we refuse to see both
or at best sneak an
occasional peak
at the edge
of our

own abyss

09/04/2012

Author's Note: Beware of where your thinking takes you.

Posted on 09/04/2012
Copyright © 2024 George Hoerner

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Paul Lastovica on 09/06/12 at 01:53 AM

I am wary of my thoughts at all times - writing them out helps (sometimes) to sort the good from the bad, the useful from the useless, and the productive from the reductive. All in the moments perspective, I suppose.

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 09/11/12 at 01:37 AM

Quite the cerebral reminder of the bottomless depth of the human mind, but its mirror also an endless sky.

Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 10/05/12 at 12:20 PM

I am reminded that sometimes the abyss falls into us and can't or hasn't the heart to crawl or make its way out, given we poets are so deep, as is this ode which once fallen into is inescapable as is the truth.

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