Paradox
Things come together
bouncing into, up against each other
from their separate opposites:
A collective nightmare
in heavenly weather.
People coming into community
as a result of being isolated.
Getting healthier by being deathly sick.
Is this the only way that humans
can change, grow or learn?
So clogged with conditioning, habit,
karma, fear and self-forgetting,
always two steps forward, one back.
But when polarities juxtapose
facing them with themselves
and each other,
out of this recognition and meeting
a composite whole, blending of extremes
is newly-born.
Janus’s two faces turned inside out,
become one.