The Dream Within the Nightmare

There is only room for everything.

It's not chaos
It is freedom
We are not perfection
We are human
We can't just love
We must also hate
We can't just live
We must also die

Author's Note

Reviews

[Dave]

Hate isn't necessary! Love is so much easier. To hate someone or something you have to give thought to them. I can't see myself wasting my time on something or someone I dislike. I'd rather ignore them altogether. NO! Sorry! I believe in love and I believe that love doesn't have to balanced by hate.
Take care - Dave

[Davidgeo]

The reason you feel so strongly about love is because of hate. You cannot have one without the other, the very definition of both would dissolve over time without the other. It's as natural as birth and death. The difference is what makes things.

[Zoe Richardson]

Simple lines that contain so much truth. We are walking dichotomies, both good and bad living side by side in our hearts. I like the use of extremes here. It reminds me of the reality of our humanity.

[Fran Marie]

I find this to be true everything
has an opposite ..the good and the
bad must be acknowledged as
day ends and we have the night
to dream a balance in all things
It's the law of nature

[Davidgeo]

I'm starting to think it's just one thing, fighting itself, constantly... for a living.

[Laz K.]

We live in a world of binary opposites: day-night, love-hate, etc. Some might say that's what makes us human, and others might say peace is found in another realm where these opposites are united.

[Davidgeo]

Our short term interpretation f***s everything up. Either way.... tell me about one million years from now with confidence. The concept is irrelevant.

[Tina]

So true.. some days hate is the only way to live but then you miss love.

[Davidgeo]

Exclusively living by one or the other is one of the greatest mistakes a human can make. It's like trying to live without sleep or sleep without waking. They define each other. Insanity comes from denying one or the other.

[Gaia Octavia]

Simple and true. It reminds me of Rufus Wainwright's song "What Would I Ever Do With a Rose?" In it, he states, "Never can the dream come true without the nightmare."

Well done!

[Davidgeo]

"never can the dream come..." you are brilliant.

[Gaia Octavia]

The brilliance is all Rufus Wainwright's 😉

[Davidgeo]

Maybe. Rene Descartes might have something to say about that. We should do math on biology sometime... it's lovely.

[Davidgeo]

(objectively)

[Chris Shaw]

I find it difficult to hate. Does that mean I should also find it difficult to love, if you can't have one without the other?

Chris

[Davidgeo]

They are parts of the same thing. The human expeirance is always drawn from the same place, how you come to express that is what makes you an individual.

[Orange]

Why hate at all. ........

[Davidgeo]

One does not exist without the other.

[Sir Aphid]

I quite liked this one. Very sharp and on point. This poem provided me with a better perspective on things.

[Davidgeo]

I'm glad. Perspective is everything.

[Geo Lawrence]

You played well with the contrasting elements. I fell in love with this work after reading. One can only be nudged into a trance of introspection.

But I may also say that your review of my work was very scathing. It was uncalled for. If my work was that bad, maybe a private message would have called me to order. There was no need for you to have said all that you had said. Your words were at best, very very caustic.

Good work.

[Davidgeo]

You're right. I was overly caustic. I apologize for that.