San Clemente Teen Poetry Contest Winner

The Tension of Opposites
Indigo Taylor

Buddah, Jesus, Mohammed
Air, water, Earth
Gandhi’s fight
Hitler’s peace
God’s existence…
The tension of opposites
The world we love
The world we hate
Children of God
Happy depression
Sad euphoria
Thinking heart
Feeling mind
Opposites fight.
A billion of a kind
The Lord’s mission
The devil’s suspicion
A cold sun
A hot moon
A galaxy of wonder.
A gentle bully
A violent saint
Wet desert
Dry rain
The darkest white
The blackest light
Everything is possible
Answers in the hands of god
Questions in the end of an endless mind
Immortal possibilities