no thing shall be a single thing. / Ifan Schallock

twin flames are two pieces grafted 
together like branches on a tree, 
metals bonded into an alloy or 
parasite-and-host. no thing shall 
be a single thing. come not in singles 
but in battalions, conjoined like twins, 
inseparable. we share our organs, 
we share our breaths. i am the hand 
to your eye, the blade to your knife. 
no thing shall be a single thing, and  
the lovers are not chained by the devil, 
and the tower does not burn. the red 
string binds us, my bones are your bones 
and your teeth are my teeth. we are 
hunter-and-prey, hati and sköll 
chasing the celestial bodies to swallow 
whole. the light singes me, but you 
are there to tend the wound. no thing 
shall be a single thing and i am not  
alone in this. brother sleep and sister death, 
i am the raven flying above and you 
are the wolf below. we rend and break 
and devour together. no thing shall be  
a single thing and you are not alone 
in this.