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In Contrast by Milo Hurley
from Legacy 2000
In Contrast
by Milo Hurley
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What's hiding in the shadows there?
Why does the dark allure?
Ash on pure white, clinging to the recesses
Where light has not the dexterity to reach.
Lying in repose
witting with such ease
shadow
while light lacks the flexibility to bend.
Looking down,
with a solitary point of view,
how narrow-minded
reflecting but the surface
seeing only a fraction of the spectrum.
Darkness is so much more experienced
so deep
sharing secrets and dreams that light will never know.
Holding the other worlds
the universe of the unseen.
The twist of light and shadow
the kaleidoscope of brilliance and darkness
the swirl of white and black
vortex-like
a pattern that traps the eye and gathers the rest in
into a lattice work of gradients and variations
thrilling
numbing
with extremes.
Pale sun light falls on me, but I gaze at that one vein of shade.
