Desire
By Tony Williams
Shadow and shine, always
in our souls, our hearts, our minds,
complex, interchanging,
drifting in and out of who we are
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like the swells and counter-swells
of water pulled by phases of the moon.
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Shadow and shine, no matter the form
each never utterly disjunct from the other.
Shadow and shine,
your endless intercourse rules us all.
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We rock and tumble in your kharmic encounters,
but it’s shine we seek the most, need the most.
Tony Steven Williams is a Canberra poet and short-fiction author with many publications in journals, anthologies and magazines. Tony’s poetic output is intentionally diverse both in form and material. He loves to wander from densely dark to fun and considers this a reflection of our rollercoaster lives. An occasional speculative fiction piece often sneaks in. However, in all his work, the environment and the human condition are very important to him. Tony has had two poetry collections published by Ginninderra Press.