Plato's myth of the androgyne: <br /> The original unity; <br /> The union of the sexes in one individual, <br /> Cleaved asunder, divided. <br /> Our sexual quests and forays are <br /> Our pathetic attempts to regain this original unity. <br /> Adam was androgynous, the original androgyne; <br /> Eve, his opposite self, was taken out of him. <br /> He and Eve, now incomplete and unhappy, <br /> Sin against God's will and are driven out of the garden. <br /> Condemned to search the world over, <br /> They never suspect that they are <br /> Unconsciously searching for each other. <br /> We are condemned to search, too: <br /> In sexual conquests, food, money, power, status; <br /> But never in the right places - within ourselves. <br /> The legacy of our fallen parents.<br /><br />Dennis A. Zelazny<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/plato-s-myth-of-the-androgyne/
