THE GNOSTIC'S SALVATION: THE SELF-CONTAINING CARRIAGE

he's a funny lad they said carrying him ... let's try to get him to the end ... but first they had to put him down ... they were like the past and the future bound together by that causal bond that one must be just that much older than the other ... and so in drub monotony they might have continued arguing always if they forgot the boy sitting on the floor like a triangle in his ignorance and good will ... the boy they picked up again to carry because he gave them balance and direction both ... when one remembered his habits of attempted manipulation and the other wandered off in accusatory dreams it was the boy who got them back on track ... when one pretended to be essential the other tried for an accident ... the boy set them between the both ... destiny and romantic chaos ... formality and the freedom to be something else ... because between the two the boy was neither and both ... the one thing neither ever did measure up to ... and the one thing both of them had to be just in order to be ... and the thing was they both knew it ... knew that it was true ... while they carried him he was carrying them