Poetic Tension

Poetic Tension

Math, a vestal virgin,
serves the temple of science
with steadfast purity.

Words, streetwalkers of discourse,
their semblance shifts and twists
with every john’s desire.

Truth, a wriggling eel,
eludes the arbitrary grasp
of competing norms.

Poetry, diametrically composed,
lives between the lines
of faithless certainty.

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RWB Presents: WDC 24th BD Poetry Event   (18+) Share free verse poems w/ friends at your favorite writing community, create and mingle. #1390406 by ~Brian K Compton~

Originally written for "The Whatever Contest." "The Whatever Contest -- Closed for Now" 

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