The Dark Twin Dans ces jours On croyait que le Soleil Etait une femme Et que la Lune Etait un homme

In those days, It was believed that the Sun Was a woman And that the Moon Was a man

For here I lie Still Unmoving Stretching far off In every direction I am the earth Solid foundation And the rest of the universe Moves around me For in the beginning There was only the Moon Cold light Looking out into the Void Cold, so cold Since for the Moon There was no companion And so he beamed Light that does not warm Face that never moves That ever-frontal view For ages without end And in his solitude He desired a companion One with which to share His time To share the times, Unending And he created me Another orb, Another globe And in his own image did He me make Round, extending in all directions But I did not glow with that white light For the Moon, Though very, very old And equally wise Did not know that the Evening glow did radiate from him So, in creating me, He did not give me light, For light he could not see And he made me male like he I thus became the dark twin To Father Moon And for countless aeons We gazed upon each other He, shimmering in the eternal sky I, mute and dark, a life-less place, I Wherever he went I followed As we traversed the boundlessness Of the Aether Then, quietly one day Another appeared Created out of the need of the Universe For the twins were similar, Yet incomplete And this other was So different So unique Unlike the Father and the twin The other was not male And was dissimilar She was bright and radiating Whereas the Moonís light gives rise To shadows The otherís light Dissipated the shadows And brought life streaming From her brilliant glow I call to you, Sunrise After an eternity of endless Cold Bring your heat and intensity to This world I sense your arrival on that first day I can feel your energy rising Though you are far away I know little of this other But I know she makes me complete I call to you Warm glow I can feel you warming the air that surrounds me I can feel a stirring in my mantle For I know my core Is molton, hot In constant motion Hail and bring life To me this day I sense a glow upon the horizon Red and yellow is the colour Of the vaulted heavens above And from these colours The night does fly Obscuring the many points Of light in the evening sky I see your face moving towards me I feel you heat rising as your Presence Increases I feel the stirrings of life In limbs and valleys Long barren And cold And as you come closer I sense an awakening New growth, A new beginning As you have risen To cover half the sky I tremble With waves and waves of heat Rolling over me Creating a new beginning No longer living in the shadows of the Moon Basking in your glow Basking in your sunny countenance As you move over me The chill of the long ages past Evaporates under your searing gaze You have transfixed me I cannot move I dare not move, at all I am no longer a ball of ice I am nearly verdant Coming to life all over Standing stones erupt From my mantle Raised as monuments To the glory of the Sun I find you in full glory Towering over me The sun radiant, majestic And as you open your many arms I am blinded by the light resplendent Your face As you move closer to me You consume me in your brilliance With flames dancing all around you You lower yourself onto me And we merge into a more complete Unity After our joining The winds arise for the first time Whistling through the new-found verdure Carrying the light and life forward To every corner of the Earth I have been transformed Once cold and barren Now seared with a new found intensity A spirit newly born And from that time forward As we look into the evening sky Father Moon always looks down With his face as old as time itself And he marvels at what Fire and earth have become We honour him I from my broad fields And from my standing stones as well His deep light casts long shadows on me now And you from the lofty height above Light of life Light of fire There are no shadows on the Sun Only the constant experience of Coming Into Being And so From that time forward There were the three The First Orb The Green Orb And The Flaming Orb And in this triune form They traveled the heavens And as they journeyed, Many and varied were the things they saw Exposed to Cold Light Strained through Earth Purified by the Sun Traveling through uncharted regions I am now more alive Then ever before Warmed and nurtured by the mystical Sun Never again to be cold and distant Basking in the glow Dancing in the light

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