Memory
Game
The cards
are all laid out
each one searching for a pair
the players turn two over
and study them with care.
At first
the game moves slowly
like a baby's unsure steps
youth, old age, uncovered
do not make a matching set.
Inexperienced
players
reject the similitude,
they have not lived long enough
to know that one is two.
Eyes untrained
by love and pain
have not seen the greater scheme
where opposites are partners
sharing a common dream.
Love and
hate a couple
ever married in tight bond
reconciling differences
as they try to get along.
Memory is
not a mirror
but the play of light and dark
of days and nights spent searching
of journeys ending where they start.
Gain and
loss are twins for life
not separate in nature;
may we possibly have the one,
and not experience the other?
Young eyes
seek pairs in likeness
to verify belonging;
old eyes seek pairs that contrast
to satisfy their longing.
The cards
are all laid out
a mosaic of relations
a game for new adventures
a game of expectations.
© 2004 Richard Sidy
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