clean and filthy

the good cannot be

 without the bad

it cannot be

 without the good

i need you to be me

to see more to be free

to be more i need you

to be me

inside you 

i need you inside me

we need them to save us

to be more we need less

to break eggs we need chickens

to make humans we need protein

to have clean we need filthy

to make life we need dirty

Author's Note

Reviews

[Fran Marie]

To everything there is a purpose
an opposite of all is none the negative and positive
it's how we exist we need
the bad and good. the clean
and filth of life..if we only
had positive and good there
we'd all be the same
a perfect unison bore
would be nothing to strive for

[Davidgeo]

Thank you for that.

[Davidgeo]

(you still lack the heat) ..... that's a good thing.... that means you're not a crazy person

[Davidgeo]

I take it back... you've got the heat.

Only a crazy person would do this.

[Fran Marie]

"I seen fire and I seen rain "

just another crazy poet..yah

[Davidgeo]

You're not clean... but you're not dirty enough to play with me just yet.

[Fran Marie]

haha ..okay if you say so..

[Davidgeo]

Come on now, I'm just busting your balls. You do as you please.

[Aura]

Wow, your use of antonyms in your poem shines gloriously! We do need dirty in order to make it clean. Without an up there is no dowm!, you can not be good without first learning what it means to be bad! So right you are, yet we never think about it that way... now do we? No! Thanks for sharing an eye opening poem, i enjoyed reading it!

[Betty Hermelee]

Everything depends on everything else; the good, the bad, clean ,dirty ,etc...it makes you think about what is important in life; you weigh these things in you mind... it's always the chicken-egg thing.
Opposites attract!
Best, B

[Chris Shaw]

Good/bad, clean/dirty, imprisoned/free, kind/nasty, ugly/beautiful. There's an opposite for everything. I thought of what's dirty in my life. Well my car needs a good clean and my windows aren't looking great. There's definitely no filth though. Meet my mum and dad.

Chris

[Davidgeo]

I like to think that opposites define each other, even require each other for the other to have purpose, making their differences the things keeping their existence from becoming hollow. It's weird when you apply that thought to the concept of beginning and ending, if you can't have one of those without the other then that might mean infinity just might be a possibility.

Thanks for stopping by Chris, it's always good to hear from you.