Flip a coin, are you?

Question

"Heads or Tails"

You stand there,

I'm where

I am.

We're arguing

again.

Night meets

day

in our

embrace.

Whose fault

is it,

we never see

eye to

eye?

And it wouldn't be

so painful

if I didn't know

what I do.

We're spinning

together,

two sides,

but its

still the same

d**n coin.

...love...

Answer 1

Is this a debased currency?

Answer 2

The coin is a very good conceit for the ideas of: argument, embrace, metaphorical spinning of indecision, night and day, and the question of fault.  The image of seeing eye-to-eye is also a visually appealing antithesis to the obverse and verso of a coin, making a sort of beast with two fronts.  However, the stanza `And it wouldn't be/so painful/if I didn't know/what to do' breaks this charm of chance with its appeal to the anxiety of volition.  I understand the anxiety still makes sense-- but to me it is not framed to take best advantage of the rest of the poem's machinery, and this for me stands out starkly for its absence.  Every other stanza is without flaw, and you have otherwise handled this metaphor productively yet precisely, with the sympathetic emotion of Donne, and far more economy, if it has less intellectual rigour or long-ringing tension.

Edit: I just saw the last word and the six dots.  I am unsure what they contribute, but certainly trust your judgement.  Line four of the last stanza, as an ancillary matter, wants to be a contraction, probably.

Answer 3

I threw my fate to the wind

it flip on end and then again

The piece of copper fell with weight

and through its portal shown my fate

But I have never seen the truth

in the penny of my youth

and the coin that stands for love

its ruling I must rise above

Answer 4

The poem of course is good, Yet it is not my conception of love, Sounds more like a one sided relationship. That has nothing to do with love. But of course that is my truth.

There is in a relationship, His truth, her truth, and The Truth.

Answer 5

i am going to say something here i do not want misinterpreted..

who can measure up to that?

Answer 6

pain is when you didnt do

what you know how to do. lol ..but true tho

and i sure as h**l wouldnt argue with a poet!

well, not about too much or too long.

forget about that trick coin! hahaha!

but Pat/

measuring up is not needed.

meeting at the moment is.

Jenny there is an Our Truth too.

its the inseparable one..

im just thinking out loud here.

no harm intended..