Antithesis To love:  to hate.  To satisfy: to want. The smooth stroke knows the rough; the loosening ties, the bind.  To cleave: to bring together and cut apart.  Twenty years knows two: the sound a lie makes when it grates against blades sharpened by the heart.  The future is the past.  A life, a troubling stone that comforts in the river bed, knows every passing cloud.  To lose: to find. To turn away.  To leave behind.

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