Up or down
  forward or back

Polarity ends
  in a panic attack

Start, stop
  the stillness portends

The middle a wasteland
  lost years of pretend

Before or after
  in front or behind

Timing entraps
  with the devil’s design

Salvation, damnation
  souls to contend

To live or to die
  —to start or to end

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)