radial

a radial symmetry
a glimmer of sanity
no longer dumb duality
we could escape this daft reality
and be like apple kernels circling 'round the core
or starfish holding hands and hands and hands
being jellyfishhappy in our ocean

but then it came
the applecore bore
clearing the path
kernels evicted in preparation
for the bilateral blade
splitting hairs and apples
into dull duality
black and white
wrong and right
our halves eternally at war

rotten to the empty core