Competing Mockingbirds in Song

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The orchid and the daisy are the same;

Though they are different, manifest as one.

The difference is the sameness though we name

Them differently.  A moon is same with sun

In essence.  In the marrow of our souls

We know this as a fact.  We fight against

This in our rationality.  The earth’s two poles

Are equals, same.  This truth above is sensed

As universal truth.  The eagle’s wing

And hummingbird’s, the skylark’s singing, screams

From birds of prey, these all combine to bring

This doctrine home as tributary streams.

  This sameness and their difference are the whole

    As one.  The two are one in every soul.