They Were ONE - Akira the Don

I’ve been reading

Recently

A great many medieval works

And these involve, particularly in the Arthurian romance and so forth

Knights in combat with each other

Fiercely in combat

With complete respect for each other

Even

Love for each other

And there is one wonderful line

In Wolfram von Eschenbach

When two

Brothers

Who didn’t know they were brothers

Were in combat

One was a Christian

And the other was a Mohammedan

They were in combat

And Wolfram says

If one wished to think of it that one that way, one could say that they were two

Battling

But they have the same father

And they are one

And they are one

Battling himself

Out of loyalty

Out of honor

And they are one

Battling himself

And doing himself

Much harm

But that is the tragic sense

As I say

Life begins, and that’s the first thing the eye sees

Life eating itself

Killing

But that’s life

And the reconciliation

Of consciousness

Which revolts from this

To that

And its affirmation

That is the song of mythology

It has been

It is the song of the religions

And with that little

Affirmative theme

The affirmation of life

As is

I would say

We have the key

To

The

Hopping up

The stepping up

The invigorating of life

Which has been the function actually, the first function

Of mythology

From the time

The old cave men

Asked the bear

To give its body

For their life

For their life

And they are one

Battling himself

Out of loyalty

Out of honor

And they are one

Battling himself

And doing himself

Much harm

And they are one

Battling himself

Out of loyalty

Out of honor

And they are one

Battling himself

And doing himself

Much harm

With that little theme

I’ll close with

Thanks to you all

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