Is Dichotomy a Grand Design?

 Is Dichotomy a Grand Design?

Glass Painting and Poem by Dr Abe V Rotor

Dichotomy, Glass painting, AVR c. 2005

I wonder what the world is like without you:

. the seed wakes up to a new life

  only when weaned strong;

. trees without branches and stems

  would be like palms and ferns;

. horns not in pair make defense futile,

  save the rhino, and the unicorn;

. unpaired limbs, claws and wings

  make the reptiles and fish rule;

. plants in the garden would not

  submit to Fibonacci's sequence;

. flocks, herds and colonies grow

  even if resources are short;

. the living minutiae, the amoeba

  and its kin would be more mean.

  these and others unheeding of your call -

  would they rather make a new realm?

I wonder what we humans are like without you:

. where truth from falsehood rises

  unseen by mob or throng;

. to decipher beauty and defy

  its contrast in morality;

. to travel on the Augustinian road

  not of man but of God;

. why men die for their beliefs,

  at the end, proved them to be right;

. why half of the world suffers

  while the other has just too much;

. why cries and laughter echo from halls

  and altars, whether in war and peace;

. why humans wouldn't live and die as one race 

  repeatedly in history.

 

I wonder if dichotomy is a grand design

of unity and diversity in continuum,

and make the world go on, ad infinitum. ~