Physis

What at first is whole and one A timeless unity but life has not begun As is nature's way one is cleft in twain Once it is split only duality will remain Gaia will want to split and splice Then the one will have been cut thrice From yin and yang dancing starts the mix Then doubling will thus be six So then double six a dozen makes The months a year in passing takes Then the hours twenty-four in a day Ours to seize or oft to fritter away Whether in the branches of our human tree In our ever-exponential progeny Or the mitosis of our cells so numberless And the subtle divisions of our consciousness The explosion of the original singularity Which is the beginning of our chemistry Whether doubles, fractal, Fibonacci or Phi The patterns of Nature never lie