Duality

A piece about how comfort and catastrophe begin with the same letter

One rainfall can change the world.
A few drops of water can save a life… or steal it.

A breeze can carry you safely to shore,
or leave you stranded in the middle of the ocean.

Suffering can tear us apart,
or teach us to know ourselves in ways nothing else ever could.

Happiness shows us how good it feels not to be hurt,
and how rarely that happens.

Belief and faith,  the softest words we know,
can give meaning to life… or create monsters that end it.

Power can protect the fragile,
or convince the strong they are untouchable.

Hope can keep us standing on broken legs,
or delay the moment we finally face reality.

Time can heal wounds we once thought fatal,
yet it has been killing us from the moment we are born.

Love can give meaning to a lifetime,
or dissolve into pain and obsession.

Knowledge can ease our lives,
or make stars fall back to Earth.

A.O Homorodean

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The fire does not change.
Only our distance from it does.