Zero Sum Game

We went our separate ways

Once we overstayed the painful days

Together tangentially, bipolar opposites

Entombed, penitentially, unipolar proximates

Who was plus, added to who was minus:

Camus added to Thomas Aquinas

Courtshipping guilt-tripping when doing the math

Step out dripping from the draining bloodbath

We were right to distance from who we've been

Wobbled uncertainties 'gainst crumbling linchpin

We, equally opposite — neither victim nor hero

All summed up, we simply add up to zero