THRONE OF THORNS

The union of opposites

Suffering the same affliction

Struggling with the same addiction

To each other...

Why can't harmony come to stay?

Do we really keep it at bay?

Can the past really ever stay that way?

My selfishness is my shackle

My crown of thorns is self-sacrifice

I have love and yet cannot see it

Nor the forest for the trees

I love him and he loves me

I hurt him and he hurts me

He hurts him and I hurt me

What is the lesson of this life?

Can there be freedom from the strife?

Will we ever find the treasures we seek?

Only to realize one day

When the love has disappeared

That it was simply here all this time?

--MX