Dichotomy

Dr Abe V Rotor

Glass painting, AVR c. 2005

I wonder what the world is like without you:

     . the seed wakes up  to a new life

       only when weaned strong;  

     . trees without branches and stems

       would be like palms and ferns;

     . horns not in pair make defense futile,

       save the rhino, and the unicorn;

     . unpaired limbs, claws and wings 

       make the reptiles and fish rule;
     . plants in the garden would not
       submit to Fibonacci's sequence;
     . flocks, herds and colonies grow
       unless resources are short;           

     . the living minutiae, the amoeba

       and its kin would be more mean.

  these and others unheeding your call -

  would they rather make a new realm?    

I wonder what we humans are like without you:
     . where truth from falsehood rises
       yet unseen by mob or the strong;
     . to decipher beauty and defy
       contrast and morality;
     . to travel on the Augustinian road 
       not of man but of God;
     . why men die for their beliefs,
       at the end, proved to be right;
     . why half of the world suffers
       while the other has too much;  
     . cries and laughter echo from halls
       and altars, in war and peace;       
     . yet humans live and die as one race
       repeatedly in history.  
I wonder if dichotomy is a grand design
of unity and diversity in continuum,
and make the world go on and on. ~