First came the twins ebony and ivory, dark and light seven winds between them and all that came to exist water and ice, fire and smoke Earth and Heaven, rainbows on the horizon Art is no sacrifice of dawn Heaven's pins stars of light enhance define mantle of night No thing so beautiful as Heaven worn thin ivory ebony do begin Between dark and light are wars waged and love made A seed nestled in the Earth nurtured and secure peeks out startled awake no less or more alive than before Ah liquid night, Mother's womb daytime fear of water We human value sight beyond ignore our other senses yet close our eyes each night wondrous dark halo of sleep Our Creator Maker of extremes truth and reality lie between mystery seen as darkness yet exists only beneath the facade our eyes perceive a shell what lies inside Is one magick the other illusion The innocence of youth some perceive as light as if aging some excursion into darkness Both are true of course knowledge multi-hued spectrum of enlightenment Finally lightness and darkness weigh the same Youth fades and age enhances People are not black and white though they name themselves as such When there is no death there is no birth an unequal universe Well these twins divided are never far apart defined by their imperfections and differences Beware human entitlement these things named made by Gods coexistent dependent upon chaos