JANUS

Two heads

Opposite directions

Permanence in sight

Transience in view

Colours ephemeral

No canvas lies still

Paintings always bleed

In our imagination

They don't hang in galleries

Music changes notes

In flux

In motion

Every sound

Arising

Dying

Passing

Reborn

Arising

Dying

Passing

Reborn

Permanence sought me

I sought permanence

Love sought me

I sought forever

Fairy tales trapped me

I trapped fairy tales

Romance ruined me

Romance saved  me

In love with the world

In books and music

In history and philosophy

In sensuality and compassion

In literature and art

Romance saved me

From:

The parched earth of man and woman

Man and man

Woman and woman

Pricking together like a cactus

In a desert of loneliness

But when two embrace the world

They embrace each other

They sail oceans of poetry

Stare at galaxies of knowledge

Their eyes sparkle

Diamond rings don't

They are jailors 

In prisons of "forever"

In fairy tale webs

Trapped

Trapped in "lives together, lives forever, till death do us part"

And then

We die alone

The irony

That death brings us

Is the truth that philosophy gives us

The truth of paradox

The truth of Janus

What was that he sang?

The man with a "Sting"!

If you love somebody

Set them free.

There is a deeper wave than this

Which you don't understand

There is a deeper wave than this

Tugging at your hand