Cleave poem

In the midst of birth we are dying,
from the moment we first breathe yet until the last gasps
the possibles of life fester the desire:
we are dying to do the impossible.

Cleave : is a contranym, a word with 2 opposite meanings:

* verb 1) split or sever along a natural grain or line. 2) divide; split.
* verb 1) stick fast to. 2) become strongly involved with or emotionally attached to.

— ORIGIN Old English Compact Oxford English Dictionary
In its most basic form it is three poems:

* two parallel ‘vertical’ poems (left and right)
* a third ‘horizontal’ poem being the fusion of the vertical poems read together.