ADULTS SWIM HERE
“faces of the unending night”
A ttractions and repulsions
splendid revulsions
precarious fragility
a mysterious dance
on the razor’s edge
of balanced tolerance
messy romance
relativity’s fabric
tangled taut
in perception’s cloth
so forever caught
reality’s delusion
fantasy’s inclusion
leave no doubt
the inside’s out
the seductive promise
the eternal question
the elusive answer
the sequin’d dancer
the everlasting bastion
of almost truth
in far flung fashion
blessed uncouth
the painted youth
a siren’s call
an ever wondering
a reason why
because it is all
before the fall
the rudely gall
cause of fiction
source of myths
sparks of friction
fountainhead
of superstition
ghastly beautiful
contradiction
this magnificent obscurity
this source of mystery
this illusion you see
is reality to me
and he and she
to us
on the night bus!
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rob kistner © 2021
Poetry at: The Sunday Muse