Synergy Poem by RIC BASTASA

the weak and the strong
hate and love, religion and science,

night and day, sun and moon,
water and fire, heaven and earth

man and God, sky and sea,
the chasm and the abyss,

flowers and grains, grass and pebbles,
bees and butterflies, song and poems,

prose and stories, paper and pen,
cats and dogs and rains, fleas and ants,

water and oil, stone and paper,
scissors and glass and diamonds,

thoughts and actions, friends and foes,
mountains and plains and valleys,

eels and ladles, pins and sands, thread and
needles, stars and fish, sheep and shit,

silence and noise, solitude and emptiness,
i-pods and beans, cells and phones,

cliches and idioms, foams and fowls, and
come to think, well, don't laugh: you and me.