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Loose Change
I flip a coin one day And see my heart, Soaring end over end, Flashing facets flipping, flipping, On one side you, On one side me, Bound together, vastly different, A common mint, perhaps, In our series, struck from One like mold, But never twice the same. Alike in composition, Circumstance, experience, Unlike in the aspects We show ourselves for all to see. Forever you've been there with me, On the other side, so close, So close, So far away, As heads to tails, one side seen, The other hidden, Like a dream never quite remembered, Haunting my one-sided existence, As I flip end over end, Feverishly spinning, but blind, Never quick enough to see What graced that other face. By all rights I never should have known, Bound though we are, have always been, But doomed to show our faces outward And never see each other. Passed from hand to hand Our life was spent On momentary pleasures, While forever denying our own. Cast aside, left behind, Lost in carelessness, Our pains like so many pennies Scattered into wishing wells, No sooner spent than forgotten. As we sunk slowly flipping Into cold and damp obscurity, Mingling with a thousand other tales, Bound for familiar hopeless ends, So it seemed as would land Heads up, or tails, Never mattered which, With a clink resembling a thud, Or the splat of a broken heart Dashed against the unforgiving ground. Spending time so long together At unawares we tired Of the sundered views we shared, One faces smothered in the darkness, The other blinded by the light, We turned at last to look within, Bound at last to see each other On the common ground we shared, Clasping in our hands a joy Much greater than cents or dollars... I catch the coin and close my hand, Caring not which end is up, To keep it safe And never let it go.