A cyclist moving through a dark arched corridor toward light. — Moving through the corridor between one place and another.

In Between.

在中間。

posted 14 May 2026 2 min · slow contradiction · 矛盾language · 語言self · 自我

the exchange

對話

presented as a found object

self ↔ self · internal monologue 我 ↔ 我

I 我總是走在中間 I always walk in between.

I 你說我是保守嗎? You say: am I conservative?

I 不是我走在保守和激進中間 No. I walk between conservatism and radicalism.

I 是客觀囉? Objective, then?

I 不是我走在客觀和主觀之間 No. I walk between objectivity and subjectivity.

I 所謂的理性? So-called reason?

I 不是我走在理性和感性中間 No. I walk between reason and feeling.

I 你也太矛盾了吧? You are too contradictory, aren't you?

I 是的因為我是人所以我很矛盾 Yes. Because I am human, and so I am full of contradictions.

The original poem is a conversation with myself, but the voice is singular. Even the questions arrive from inside the same body.

Not as a compromise. Not as hesitation. Not because I cannot choose a side.

Between conservatism and radicalism, between objectivity and subjectivity, between reason and feeling, there is a narrow path where the self remains unfinished enough to keep listening.

Contradiction is not always a failure of thought. Sometimes it is the most honest evidence that a person is still alive inside more than one truth.