Between the Contradictions...

Between the contradictions

Between the dependence on independence

and my inner need to be saved

Between the black and white

that my logic tries to categorize life in

the grey puddles in the skies of my optimism

that my emotions dim the lights on

The fear my optimism will run out

as every story gets labelled

a fairy tale or tragedy

Between the satin sheets of my safe haven

that most would call aloof

a raft that steadies me

from the rolling waves of trendy

My world is mighty

painted with the brush of a thousand mistakes

giving my soul a fingerprint

a thread of DNA unlike any other

born of ancestry and the thousands of days

that engrave themselves into my skin

Between these lines

secrets laid bare

Beneath foundations of lessons learned

a man penetrated by discovery

a craving to be dug into deep and deeper
 
Between the contradictions

there fell an abyss

a chasm of depth beyond the view

the wonder of bridging emotion and logic

Giving birth through that discovery

as life springs forth

Between the tears lays my learning

Between the words lays my understanding

That is the unwritten exposition

defined that it may exist

There

right there

between the contradictions

lays the wonder of me