White Wolf, Black Wolf

Two wolves together

One white wolf and one black wolf

Circling each other

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One wolf is starving

Their ribs and bones can be seen

Stripped to their barest

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The other is full

Their belly close to bulging

Feeding to excess

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Neither can approach

One too weak, one too weighed down

Each with their limits

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Forever they dance

Paralyzed by difference

Forever intwined

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Until mankind comes

And the hunter finds his way

To the hidden glade

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He shoots his arrow

Hitting both his targets true

And the two wolves fall

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A dark mist gathers

On the ground around the wolves

Covering them up

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And then the mist spreads,

Across the world it does head

Until darkness rules

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With no struggle to

Keep the ultimate darkness

Away at arm’s length

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The world is now cursed

To carry on the burden

Of the light and dark