When men and women come together

[oliviabloom]

from 'Listening to the Koln Concert'
             by Robert Bly
  
When men and women come together,
how much they have to abandon. Wrens
make their nests of fancy threads
and string ends, animals

abandon all their money each year.
What is it that men and women leave?
Harder than wren's doing, they have
to abandon their longing for the perfect.

The inner nest not made by instinct
will never be quite round,
and each has to enter the nest
made by the other imperfect bird.

[Eridu]

The balance and cooperation of relation. Captured very nice!

A very thoughtful poem with helpful insight....thanks, Olivia