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Still  
by Alex Grehy

I sit in perfect balance

with myself.

.

I am the matter, the energy, 

neither created nor destroyed 

by the chemistry that once

bound us to each other. 

.

I was once 

Yin to your Yang

Ice to your fire,

Frigid to your passion

.

Always to blame, I was

the spark of opposites, 

igniting your temper,

Did you love or hate me?

.

I became a gyroscope,

always in motion, perpetually

spinning to meet your

ever changing needs.

.

Until I toppled. Did I

fall or did you push?

Did I die or did I

survive, transcendent?

.

I sank into nothing

then rose as the void, 

a force of nothingness, I 

neither attract nor repel

.

Without me you have no

motive force; I see you break

into pieces, lacking cohesion

without my gravity.

.

I am still, in perfect balance

with myself, and you are 

fractured. I am complete,

enough, I am the void.

.

Fiction © Copyright Alex Grehy
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from author Alex Grehy:

After a lifetime of writing technical non-fiction, Alex Grey is fulfilling her dream of writing poems and stories that engage the reader’s emotions. Her work has been featured by a wide range of publications including Siren’s Call, Raconteur, Bookends Review, and Toasted Cheese. One of her comic poems is also available via a worldwide network of public fiction dispensers managed by French publisher, Short Edition. Her ingredients for contentment are narrow boating, greyhounds, singing and chocolate. It is a sweet life, yet Alex’ original view of the world has led to her best friend to say ‘For someone so lovely, you’re very twisted!

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