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Balance of the Moon

The moon is in balance and I am not

The mood is exactly half light and half dark

and I am not

My dance is a song that flows like rock

A book that is a flight as steady as water rushing down a tree.

The moon is in balance and I am not.

Or

Am I? Is my balance so like the moon's that it is unlike the moon?

Is it that I rope a different tightwalk from others

Or

Is it the just the same-old same-old that I refuse to acknowledge

And so in my sanity must claim insanity.

Perceptions

of what is up and what is down

depend on where your head is.

The moon is in balance and maybe I am too.

Stephanie Arwen Lynch, August 30, 1998