"Exegesis"

For this National Poetry Month 2020, I have shared with you some of my original work. My last offering this month is a poem about entropy. Carl Jung said, "The sad truth is that man’s real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites—day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end."

Exegesis

You’re driving through darkness
past fields of poles
with red lights and
it’s winter.
It’s your headlights,
your dashlights,
the red lights
but all around is
darkness.
A long time ago,
you read a myth
from somewhere
about creation and
the beginning of
night and day.
Light was a rock
thrown at the night sky--
an accident, a reaction
and its ripples are
still felt. Darkness is
a natural state.
The world is darkness
and soon, things will
return to normal.
Soon, all will be
dark again.

©JEF