Friday, March 22, 2002 :::
THE ORIGIN OF LOVE
In the beginning things were very different.... This is the Origin of Love
Long ago, when the Earth was flat and the clouds were made of fire, the world was inhabited by creatures similar to, but very different from we humans.
There were three sexes then, one that looked like two men glued back to back, they were called the Children of the Sun.
The Children of the Earth looked like two women rolled up in one.
And the Children of the Moon, the strangest of all.
Part Sun, part Moon, part daughter, part son.
And they knew nothing of love, this was before
The Origin of Love.
The Gods were scared of the power and defiance they witnessed on Earth.
Thor spoke in a low rumble of thunder,
"These tiny creatures need to learn a lesson. I will
stike them down with a mighty blow of my hammer."
But Zeus said, "NO, I shall cut them down with my powerful
lightening. Let them be humbled with my might.Like I cut the leggs off of whales, dinasours into lizards."
Zeus grabbed up some bolts, let out a laugh and said, "I'm going to cut them right down the middle, gonna cut them right down in half."
And the storm clouds gathered above, into great balls of fire
And then the fire shot down from the sky in bolts like shining blades of a knife.
And it ripped through the flesh of the Children of the Sun and the Moon and the Earth.
And some Indian God sewed the wound up to a hole pulled around to our bellies
to remind us of the price we paid.
And Osiris and the Gods of the Nile gathered up a big storm
to blow a hurricane to scatter us away
in a flood of wind and rain, a sea of tidal waves
and if we don't behave they'll cut us down again
and we'll be hopping around on one foot
and looking through one eye.
The last time I saw you,
we'd just split in two.
You were looking at me,
I was looking at you.
You had a way so familiar,
but I could not recognize,
'Cause you had blood on your face
and I had blood in my eyes
But I could swear by your expression
that the pain down in your soul
was the same as the one down in mine
That's the pain that cuts a straight line down through the heart. And we called it love
So we wrapped our arms 'round each other, trying to shove ourselves back together.
We were making love. Making love…
It was a long dark evening such a long time ago,
When by the mighty hand of jove
It was a sad story how we became two lonely two legged creatures...
The Story, the origin of love
~HEDWIG & THE ANGRY INCH~
::: posted by Jen at 4:36 PM
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