Declassified Poem by Myra Jefferson

Clarifying, justifying, and qualifying
of the mystifying existence ceased when
a truce was called
between gratification and restraint
wisdom and ignorance
order and freedom
emotion and intellect
charity and self-reliance
sensitivity and strength
compliance and conscience
since it was revealed that none
were mutually exclusive of the other
but merely different facets of the same creature

Imagine that. file it under...