Polarities (Original Poem):

One hundred degrees of boiling, bubbling, scalding water or zero degrees of frozen, paralysed, sharpened iced particles consuming my body

Love with every incalculable ounce I can consume, pinching passion on my flesh to remind myself of its realness

Anger to the inmost pits of devilish summoning, conjured up by a deity solely set on destruction

Sorrows so bolted and wedged, toes of slush, cracked heels of concreted blocks

Forgiveness so open, expansive, encompassing, it reconciles grudges cyclical karmic lifetimes could have generated

Solidarity to an isolated singular molecule, so desperately wanting to be alone

Togetherness, so desperately wanting to be united, to feel needed and wanted

Riches of luxury, layered papers and plastics stamped with marks of importance, creating insatiable appetites

An absolute disdain for material needs, higher energies calling for lights from within

My eyes were closed when yours were open

My mind was shut when yours was awake

The whitest cloak of a collective calmness

The blackest barge of clotted borders

Let’s decide in the middle ground where the soil is blue and the sky is brown.

(Artwork: Luke Robson)