A Paradoxical Universe Swirls Within Me
a poem
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fresh and sour whole and cracked awed and discouraged
content and envious happy and firey courageous and weary
pure and naughty extraordinary and ordinary intelligent and foolish
so many opposing tensions swirl inside me mingling mixing arguing squabbling
for within me exists a paradoxical universe of delightfully sparkling stars and densely heavy planets
of swiftly swimming salmon thoughts and lumbering whale-sized emotions
of chartreuse green ideas springing to life and decaying old notions of self with brighter ones yet to form under the depths of winter’s ice
a wavy inner world filled with azure cloudless skies and thundering powerful earth-quaking storms a rich and loamy earth packed with squirmy worms persistent pests and playful pansies
a garden of marvelous treasures and mischievous quirks to be dug up discovered explored touched held healed and loved
so much more lives inside me than the suitcase of my skin suggests
opposites colliding wrestling fighting in need of reconciling
yet somehow all belong and found a home inside this vast and paradoxical universe swirling within me
kasey sparks, © 2023
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