the names of counterparts

what primordial rending

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what primordial rending
reflects itself to itself
in its own image - never so simple
as the obvious answer,
but neither is it different from it

what we have named that which longs
for its other half
and what those names have come to mean, 
meaning always not only handed down from
the past, but projected
retroactively onto it

there is surely no return
except

the necessity of through

the necessity of the rending
and of its naming
and of the naming’s erosion
in the ever-throughness
of becoming

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