Cross

[RiverNotch]

Cross
 
Some days you are unforgiving.
Other days it’s me.
 
Who dies at the confluence?

the two words that mean the most here are "cross" and "confluence". both can mean, equally, a crossing of paths, confluence the meeting of streams, cross the meeting of sticks, or of roads. "unforgiving" easily pulls me to a more religious interpretation, with "cross" also referring to the cross of Christ, and "confluence" being, perhaps, the crossing of the streams of water and blood, or the "confluence" of humanity and divinity in Christ. the question posed, through this framework, perhaps concerns a dialectic between the human and divine sides of the speaker, or perhaps between the human speaker and the divine listener, or even the divine speaker and the human listener -- "who dies at the confluence?" ultimately asks who or what is lost at the end, who or what is corrupted, incarnated, sacrificed, etc. you have a framework here, and honestly i'm not gonna be bothered if the framework stays only as a framework, but the point is the word choice works, and i'd probably have something more concrete given time, although in such a manner as to impose too much of myself on the piece.