I wrote these three poems in my attempt to understand myself the nature of the duality of life and death, which is, in my opinion, the best example of Yin and Yang.

 

Poem: 1

Death hath yet known darkness 

And feasts with light

That it be your slumber lasts til your wake 

Be it the salt pour evermore 

On the only wound life cannot see

For life itself is the process of death 

The End is what it's claimed

The cycle complete

Poem: 2

Death hath life on a leash 

For under his will, can you be free

Free of whom? 

Life begins long before the womb and ends just before grave 

In it we love, we cry, we hope, and we lie

And we call it all living

I suppose certain moments of joy can cover ones ache

But it is that ache where we find truth

That the air poisons

And Death is but a welcome foe

Poem: 3 

Life will never know the gentle kiss of love

For its love brings despair

To the ones promise be cherished

Life but a mask death hides under

None sane would stare at the pit of their graves and claim devote

Each whisper in night, each plea for love

Only when death must pull at your chains

Shall you meet his eye

Life, a gift no one asked for

And death but a giver

Be the unseen friend forever unwelcome 

That you lay gaze upon when he becomes your eyelids

That never again shall you claim oblivious to his presence

That only the chain be the softest kiss you ever received