Paul Georgiou
A just equality
If I to you
were, am, untrue,
then either I must speak the truth
or lie;
and either you are hurt or not
or neither.
And if you do not feel,
although you know,
my infidelity
and, as I with another lie,
so you,
and tell the truth
to him or me
and he or I am hurt
or not;
then let us grant
that you and I are humankind
(and she and he)
and in a very sad-go-round
press hard the wine
and crush the juice
(or so it seems)
out of my, your (and his, her) dreams:
and this for independence sake,
or fear
that those who one another take
must give or break.
Yet let us both agree
that you and I decide
or not
that such a fear is justified.
“One thing is sure;”
she smilingly replied
“In ‘either or’
resides a just equality,
and thus you lose the argument,
or so it seems,
while I have nothing lost
except your dreams.”