Helpless and Fond, the Wolf and Lamb

Helpless and fond, the wolf and lamb

Each a recipient, to each germinal

Rivet together while great empires fall

And shoot new empires in each other's name.

For one is Love and one is Bitter Shame

Or Hatred. Each, forever conjugal,

Forever balanced to the other's scale

Impregnates snow and scatters seed in flame.

Of them is God, resolved to unity-

The planets' cavern, the structured flesh of stars,

The final flesh, the last stockade, the bone

Golden and spherical. Only His boundary

Delimits Love. Only His bars

Decree the depth to which His Self is sown.