Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk
One paints the beginning
Of a certain end.
The other, the end of a
Sure beginning.
Parallel 
 This line almost exactly mirrors the line before it, reversing the “beginning” and “end.” 
 
 If unaware of time, one can’t really tell the difference between sunrise and sunset. 
 
 Similarly, African Americans and whites are intrinsically the same. 
 In more general terms, the mirroring of these two lines suggests that everything is a matter of perspective. It’s up to the reader to decide if the glass is half empty or half full, if we are referring to the beginning of the end or to the end of the beginning. 

Passing Time