“Things Go Either Way” by Don Gray
(an homage to Søren Kierkegaard, inspired by friend and fellow poet Peter Notehelfer’s thoughtful recent piece on “Conscience”)
we are that binary substance
the stuff of the A and the B
philosophically either and or
the aesthetic and ethic
dissimilar twins of existence
who struggle for primacy
whence lay the higher-most calling
the predicate path to perfection
profound are the quandaries
begging the questions
that tantalize radical choices
defining our reason and purpose
the back and forth testing of truths
that by turns and by time
against backdrops of faith
renders clarity giving distinction
to how moral lines
come to conscience
converged in perspective
revealing the ultimate portrait
that is and remains our real self
Poesy plus Polemics 
This wonderful poem commences at a mountain spring and ends at the open sea. Once more, you raise the bar, Paul
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glad you liked it
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A fine testament to our struggle to be our better`selves in a world intent on encouraging us to be our lesser ones . . . And thanks for the kind nod . . .
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my pleasure
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