Two Sides
Two parts of the whole
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1 min readMay 23, 2020
This poem is a part of “Equal People,” Our Human Family’s anthology of international poetry on equality and inclusivity.
It’s heads I win and tails you lose.
How can I win if it kills you?
How can one face survive the other,
One coin, one mint, sister and brother?
Yet can two faces ever see
Their opposite, that you are me?
Or can we only sense the whole,
Each facing out to play our role?
About the Poet
Meg Barclay, partner in an architecture firm, creates spaces for others to inhabit: structures of solids, structures of words. She practices distilling meaning into a minimum of words through poetry, and is editor of Resistance Poetry. She has lived and studied in the US, Italy and India. She has found her home in Maine.
