THE PERISHABLES

I respect contrasts
i pay homage to opposition
i kiss the hands of my adversaries
to a happy ending
but i do not have to change my direction
i am born
to take the opposite
of what most people desire
this world is not a matter of left or right
or up or down
there are compromising positions
in the middle of the air
where clouds settle and then drift
away

like them, some people are not
meant to stay
they are meant to go away

if they settle, try to understand,
they will perish.