DUALITY

[DinkyDi]

Well, I never felt "DUALITY" was finished quite right, so I went back to re-write it, but didn't. I just added 2 more chapters if you like.

I'm pretty happy with it now.

DUALITY
Hidden incognito
‘Twixt a lumbered sanity,
‘Tween falsified bravado
Nestles ones’ duality,
Small in mind and wonder
As the senses feather thin,
Generally encumbered
By the accolades we win.

Foraged through the annals
Of a mind I left behind,
Scrounged through the channels
Of a place I’ll never find.
Thy septum of normalcy
Conjoining two to one,
Incite a lone duality
I shan’t recover from.

Avertedly impotent
From the other side of me,
Decisively component
Birthing schism silently,
Till realization hungers
Via sheer conformity,
Painfully in slumber
I shall meet duality.

PRETEND
In peace I’ve always battled
That this hated love of life,
Is certainty so rattled
That my lack of love is rife,
I’m aimless though directed
In a forward backward step,
Detaching while connected
To this heartened lively schlep.

I’m wearily awakened
to this dying promenade,
in hope I’m left forsaken
to a faltering, dead heart.
Allowing me to stoically
Become part of my heart,
And introduce heroically
My ending to my start...

Inflection of my aurora
And I’m missing once again,
Keyed in by Pandora,
And it’s lethally my end.
Vehemently, alone succumb
Too late to make amends,
Won a hold of kingdom-come;
Provided I pretend...

WHICH
To hate this bold and beautiful
Illuminated life,
Scornfully and dutiful
I navigate the knife,
‘Twixt the hope and dismally,
Orchestrated smile,
I’m simply hoping merrily,
To, find myself worthwhile.

Of everything I ever knew
A way to become one,
Fantastically reborn anew
Believing I had won,
A torrid conflagration
And I got want I had want,
Inner remuneration
And I got it nonchalant.

A dual mix of delirium
And flaccid animus,
Became said dualism
And my life would be the cost.
Good to bad, black to white
Ying upon it’s yang,
Fighting over taking flight
Which did you find stang?
20/09/2012 ADO
© Copyright 2012 Adam Parker

[Neville Briggs]

Robert Louis Stevenson wrestled with the same problem of duality, he wrote a story called The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Oscar Wilde's take was to imagine that he could transfer the ' bad bits ' to an impersonal alter ego who took his suffering while he prospered intact, in The Picture of Dorian Gray. I think both writers really failed to find an answer.