DUALITY
by Michael de Villiers (ca. 1970's)
(Copyright reserved)

Always perspective in a point
as well as in a line ...
Who am I?
A point or a line?
Collinear on a line or concurrent in a point?
Am I a hypersphere or cross polytope?
Or a self-dual pentatope?
Projected on a plane
Inhabited only by two-dimensional beings?
Who am I?
The fragrant rose or the pointed thorn?
The barren mountainpeak or the fertile valley?
The limitless sky or bottomless oceandepth?
The howling gale or passive doldrum?
Who am I?
A falling snowflake or the melting of ice?
The sound of thunder or the flash of lightning?
The lightheartedness of rain or the severity of drought?
Who am I?
Am I the raging fire or its smouldering ashes?
Am I dead or alive?
Dead among living or living among the dead?