May our language not bind us, and may our symbols not stifle our love. The 26 letter English alphabet is sometimes like a tool that acts to restrict our imaginations. So, why not seek a 27th symbol and keep going? I double dare you!
Zero and One,
Have much in common.
From another angle,
Are like Two birds of a feather.
One loves Two,
So Two agrees to work with One.
Two looks forward, however, to Three,
And feels entitled to assume it will be them also, of course.
Three knows both Two and One,
Yet Zero is obscured by them.
Three sees Four as part of the Family,
Four sees Three as less, just as Two is as a half.
Four rather seeks more, and ponders beyond Five,
Yet Three and Five are ‘beautiful’ together.
So Two and Four claim Six,
To hold Three away from self.
Still, Six seeks Three,
And discovers a shadow of these connections.
Seven weaves a meaning between them all,
A fabrication of Three’s story.
Eight reminds Five of Three’s truth,
So Seven’s story doesn’t quite hold up.
Nine works to harmonize the details,
Yet Seven’s fiction is adopted on stubborn foundations.
Ten sees Zero and One meet again,
As 11, the Two return anew.
Astonished at the mess they have caused, they investigate,
And so Twelve loses their forward momentum.
Thirteen, stands on Eight and Five,
To suppose: What if Three was One?
Many then can no longer stand,
So Fourteen builds a team for redemption.
Fifteen introduces Five to One,
And they circle around to exact justice below.
Sixteen is the two Eights,
Who weave agreed harmonic dreams for the healed.
Seventeen reaches these insights down into the lower situations,
To share knowledge that might free from illusion.
Eighteen returns One from afar,
To walk with us as a wider perspective.
Nineteen is a winding path upwards,
Confident the maze still has some cheese to find.
Twenty is an agreed level limit,
So our current energy is sufficient to reach the ‘end.’
Twenty One is where Two leads the way,
Even if they still claim to control Three.
Twenty Two is the clash of dual vendettas,
Which is now a game of appearances.
Twenty Three is the arm wrestle for Three,
Is it free or not?
Twenty Four is the Square crossed lines,
Which is above and which is below?
Twenty Five is the Ascension,
Yet who is going back down?
Twenty Six is the harmony of two,
A Ladder between them.
Twenty Seven is confounded by the point of no return,
And embraces splitting picture for alternate justice.
Twenty Eight is creative solutions,
For the abundance of energy yet realized.
Twenty Nine is prime grace,
It shares something few can expect.
Thirty is Three machines finally seeing the same level,
Their clarity causes some explaining to be done.
Thirty One is the reminder of how it started,
And the answer to many questions.
Thirty Two is a moment of pause,
For childish things are left behind.
Thirty Three is a new kind of harmony,
Built upon the wisdom of balance.
Blue Oyster Cult – Dominance And Submission
Radiohead – Man Of War
Franz Ferdinand – Take Me Out
Tristan James Johns 