Spacial dance tangential
Dual adversarial approach
Competing illuminations
In antithesis
For attention
From those for whom
Neither Sol nor Moon
Can be touched or stopped
Until that moment
When a world pushes back
And devours the midday light
Leaving a ringed shell
Of what had been
On the same shelf
Plates stacked as two
Whence what cannot
Be touched or stopped
Stops to touch
All who bask
In a ring of warmth
'Til tumblers realign
Again
In two-part harmony
Above all there is
For us
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
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If what had been on the same shelf. Taken out of context, these lines hit me hard. Loved your poem!