At dVerse Laura is hosting Poetics with an invitation to paradox using inspiration from two sources, my choice is Paul Dunbar.
dVerse Poets – Poetics – Beyond Meaning or The Resolution of Opposites

“I am the fool in the morning, thou art my slave in the night.” Paul Dunbar (The Paradox)
She Was Dressed of innocence in the light she revelled as mistress by dark, when maxis gave way to minis in taxis, water surrendered to whiskey, and walk gave way to strut and swagger of rounded hips, explicit though hidden, between cotton and leather, though lace was ambivalent and undecided, her breathtaking purity as decadence or sultry vamp as coy as a maiden, she was as enigmatic as any code yet unbroken though known. ©Paul Vincent Cannon