Before the bridge
the river raged
down the valley
separating twin peaks
from each other
Allowing each wilderness
to find the path
of least insistence
Allowing the nature
of all things wild
to swim in untroubled silence
without a thought of
the other side
After the bridge
walls were needed to house
vaults of misunderstanding
Ropes became the vines
to climb into other spaces
The chains needed to tame the captured
with ideas full of insistence
until the freedom of the wilderness
descended into roads of rules
to protect the jewels taken from the other side
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