Garden Path

How do you balance

the kind and the cruel

The good and the bad

of life’s golden rule

As reason pulls tightly,

treason pulls back

Living in conflict,

together intact

Tragic, comedic,

while often as both

 Angels and Demons

commingle betrothed

A savior, destroyer,

calling our name

A garden of riches

—caught in the flames

(Haverford College: February, 2021)