~~~ Twins ~~~

Born from the same womb
Spending nine everlasting months together
Gulping the same amniotic fluid
Till they learnt suckling their mother’s own blood.

Everyone thought "What a wonderful Bond
Inseparable from birth
You couldn't find one without the other"
But the moment they made their first cry
They were torn apart forever.

Taste and appetite accommodate,
But barely, the one too ready with its “No, thank you”
And the other's eager “Yes, please”
Always shining on blazing lips.

Taste deigns to nibble while appetite gnaws
Until, at the end, the yoke is lifted and each
Freed, flies off to its separate heaven
To grow to its perfection, or to dwindle.

Don't they miss how it was, the constant persuading?
Seducing the sulky twin, overcoming reluctance,
Each meal and morsel another bargain
And new balance?
Not a bit they thrive…

Empress of the jungle, sovereign of the desert,
Each supreme in fullness or emptiness,
And both killers, as we always knew they were…
With still no reflection to uphold…