Poem: Changes 55 /Fullness

Plots and intrigue shade us
Like a solar eclipse.
Darkness is on the wane
As humanity coalesces,
Marching to civilization.
Just when things look brightest,
You remember the decline will follow.
You want to be the midday sun
Gladdening everything under heaven,
But achieve the opposite
With your reverse Midas touch.
Sometimes you lay down the law
And sometimes you enforce it:
You want to be the master of all
But lose your family
And find yourself alone
In the dim light
Under a pale paring of the moon
Walking on a dark road into the west.
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