Competing Forces

You are the dull ache in the back of my head

You are the reason I’d be better off dead

You are the center of all of my pain

You are the agony, my life’s one true bane

You are the joy, the sun in the night

You are the source of all of the light

You are the laughter through the dark days

You are the reason that I’d change my ways

Competing forces, black and white

I care for them both, wrong or right

Balancing elements through all of time

Constants in life, reason and rhyme