A PIECE OF STRING
from Desert of Tears
Have you heard it takes two to tango?
You know what it really means?
There's a sort of duality subsisting
at the very foundation of the universe.
It means, at rock bottom,
there can't be a oneness
there has to be a twoness.
You can see it everywhere.
I'm looking at a piece of string on my desk.
Do you know why I can do that;
I mean look at a piece of string?
Because it has two ends.
Can you even imagine a piece of string
with only one end?
If there were such a thing,
I sure as hell wouldn't be able to see it
lying on my desk.
It's like
its two ends define it;
because it has two ends,
as opposed to just one,
it is therefore capable of being defined,
as a piece of string, or a garden hose,
or whatever.
Because it has two ends,
it's capable of being grasped,
which is just another way of saying
"defined."
Now you probably think I'm starting to rant
about this
and I probably am, so I'll go ahead and
get to the point.
It's like this:
That piece of string is like us.
You know how?
Because we have two ends too,
a beginning and an end.
And in the same way that we couldn't comprehend
an end without a beginning,
we also couldn't grasp
a beginning without an end.
Many believe that the end
is actually somehow built in to the beginning.
I don't know, but it sounds like...
well, I'm not sure what I want to say,
maybe a "neat" idea.
But there is a way in which the end
is most certainly built into the beginning,
by virtue of the fact that
there was a beginning in the first place.
It is probably some kind of law that
anything which has a beginning has an end.
And it's probably a good thing;
I mean, if something had a beginning
but no end
it would take up all the space and time
every single bit of it.
And do you know what
that would mean?
There wouldn't be any room
for you and me.