Devil Guardians (Thursday Doors)

Trickery, these choices
between opposing forces–
one equal to the other
at their meeting place.

Is there ever a way
to pry them apart?–
it seems impossible
to distinguish any difference.

sometimes up can change
completely, depending on
who or where you are.

And sometimes down is
really up in disguise, waiting
to surprise you.

I have many random photos I’ve taken of doors with no idea where they were taken and no context to show the entire building or the buildings around them.. These doors with devil guardians are part of that group.

Devils seem a peculiar guardian for a door. But perhaps the devil you know provides a shield against all the ones you haven’t yet met.

I love the arched windows on these brownstones too.

Punam at dVerse asked us to consider good and evil as a subject for our poems. I think there is a thin line, often even an overlap, between the actions of gods and demons. The promised safety of obedience to a God or a risky uncertain bargain with the Devil? One website I visited said that, in folklore, the Devil is often interchangeable with the Fool. The Fool contains all possibilities, both good and bad. It’s not always easy to distinguish between truth and lies, illusion and fact. Would we choose to eat the apple? Paradise or Knowledge? Each one of us will answer in their own way.

And as always look for more doors and share your own here at Thursday Doors, hosted by Dan Antion.