Before and After

Before and After

Before and After

Ever strangers to one another

The rival twin brothers

The wild abandon of the rising

The desolate calm of the fallen

Yesterday’s folly turns to tomorrow’s regret

Ever strangers to one another

Grasp onto her and she changes to dust

Walk alongside her and she grows vivid

The drunken night and the sobering morn

Hunger unleashed and bursting belly

Why are they such strangers?

The wise man knows how to introduce them to one another

The more estranged the more unbalanced

Mix the extremes - Dilute the bias

May the night and the morn seamlessly integrate

Every crest has its trough

May we find the still silence of a motionless sea

Better yet may we know the waves and the sea to be inseparably one mind.