Distinguish and Define (Life’s not a Circle but a Line) -2/11/06

The hands of time progress and rings exchanged
Return to where they were when they began
But we cannot discount the course they ran
Though as is as it was, we feel deranged.

These rings’ reversal works a clever deed
Makes clearly present “two” where once was “one”
Where once was “light”, we see a “moon” and “sun”
And neither e’er must glimpse the other’s steed.

But though I use poetic method here
In more than poetry, distinction lies.
The change is felt in what we say and do.
You are to me as “wall” instead of “mirror”,
Where once I saw a heart are guarded eyes,
Where once I touched an “I”, I feel a “you”.