You can’t know one
without knowing the other.
No cold without warm.
No dark without light.
No skinny without fat.
No wet without dry.
No ugly without pretty.
No big without small.Nature doesn’t make opposites.
It just is
whole and unbroken.
The mountain doesn’t name itself tall,
the tide doesn’t call itself low.
They just exist, complete.
It was Man who carved the world in halves,
who needed a word for safety.
So he made danger.
Who needed good,
So he invented evil.
At first, it was for survival,
a way to measure hunger, heat, and threat.
But that wasn’t enough.
Ego took the tool
and sharpened it for conquest.
He learned to label and divide
to call one better,one worse,
to puff himself higher
by pressing others own.
Now he walks through unity
seeing only edges.
All the while,
Nature just breathes,
unconcerned with contrast,
at peace in its sameness.
n.b.
If there were no Democrats there’d be no Republicans.
It seems that we need them both to see each other’s point of view.
I don’t normally comment on poems aimed at anything political, so I’m going to pretend the last line isn’t there (I’m a Democrat – I vote Republican if I believe in the candidate and I think some Democrats are asshats, btw).
I guess you could say that one cannot exist without the other. How can I prove that it can’t? But do I think it’s fair to say that man decided to do all that (I’m not naming all of it, especially when he did) and nature is unconcerned with contrast? No, I don’t.
Nature is contrast, not sameness. The mountain may be tall but the valleys are low. The tide is high and it’s low. Nature is violent and calm. There is daylight and darkness.
Your poems make me think. I dig that, Peter.
Thanks for your considered comment.
I only put the political line in to highlight the point that one exists because of the other.
My politics are on the left because that’s where I see less selfishness but in truth there is only a bees dick between most political parties.
Business runs the show.
And on a whim.
I think I like you 😜
You do🤪