Both Poem by Darlan M Cunha

*

There are only two sides to the same visage
the handle and blade, lips and kisses
the lenses of the same glasses
abyss and jump, meeting and farewell
yes, almost everything has been said
cold or hot, good or bad, no good,
it has been said that

love is colder than death, * which also
are two sides of the same coin, listen
the drain leak, the dam bite, listen to me say
before it's too late for what they do
and they take it out on you the two sides of the same living.


*: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German filmmaker (1945-1982)
***: DeepL.com, Germany. March 2020