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.
For now we are a pair.
From College Poems (1966)
by Alan Harris
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