Two Principles
A man and a woman
Dragged Earth into the Titan’s council.
The woman claimed it was hers; Gaia.
The man, Oceanus, said it was his giant clam;
Mother and son duking it out.
The elders, ill-tempered Titans themselves, listened.
Gaia insisted the planet was female.
Oceanus protested and said it was male.
The elders, wise women and men, laughed.
The woman pointed to lava, mist, and valleys
And said, “See? All features of my body!”
The man touched mountain peaks, dark forests, and deep seas
And said, “See? It resembles me more.”
The Titans, half-jokingly, suggested:
Why not cut Earth in half;
Woman gets lava, mist, and valleys
And man, mountain peaks, forests, and seas?
Neither woman nor man wanted that.
They wanted Earth to belong
To only one of them or nothing at all.
One of the blessed-twice souls,
The oldest council member,
Took Earth by the Himalayas
And tossed it far into space
With man and woman
Chained to it and to each other.
Blessing them, she-AND-he said,
“Together you shall survive,
If you can.”
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