The Bird and the Fish

The bird and the fish to each other incline,
A union unique, in the distant blue,
To pay to a secret the homage that's due,
To show how they long, how deeply they pine.

Its scaly form frozen in silent delight,
The fish lies there stranded and bound up in pain.
The bird for its part content to remain
Straddles its tail:  phallic wounds, flowering bright.

What drives these two creatures to this strange embrace ?
What order of nature ordains this deed done ?
What riddle is posed from beyond time and space ?

The answer is ancient, as old as the sun:
In union, together, in this time and place,
They both praise their creator, sing a hymn of the One.


 ® 1978, Peter Guckel, Köln / Cologne, Germany
www.natura-mystica.info

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