Bidentity

Alan Harris

Beware, They warned;

Scoff, We scorned.

A pernicious disparity of essences shall be thy blight, said They;

Love merges divisions to conquer all, We Two replied.

Time wore on and us.

Time found our seaming,

Rotted away the silly thread,

Laid bare two essences, unjoined.

We cried, Woe: We lie in the palpitating entrails of

Circumstance, never to be ejected: Woe.

Then stopped.

Reasoned:

Who despairs at one disparity

Must perish in a human crowd.

Traded a sob for a synthetic:

Be, difference;

Viva.

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