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    Legends and Lyrics – Second Series

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    Two Worlds begins by immers­ing the read­er in a vision of cre­ation unspoiled—a realm where every­thing sings in har­mo­ny with the divine. God’s world, as depict­ed, puls­es with beau­ty that tran­scends form: light glides over val­leys, stars dance in ordered rhythm, and every breeze car­ries the tone of affec­tion. There, strength is not harsh but gen­tle, and beau­ty is not vain but noble, shaped by the bal­ance only divine inten­tion can bestow. Light, more than mere illu­mi­na­tion, becomes a ten­der gar­ment draped across the world, cast­ing clar­i­ty over all things. In this pure design, every liv­ing form moves in accord with Love, which flows like breath through rivers, rain, and sky. There is no fear, only purpose—each being guid­ed, nev­er lost.

    From this height, the descent into man’s world is stark. What was once ordered has been bent; what was once whole is now marred by man’s rest­less hands. Strength becomes a tool of con­trol, no longer shaped by beau­ty but twist­ed by desire and pride. In place of har­mo­ny stands chaos, born not from nature but from humanity’s estrange­ment from its source. Where God’s world moves in light, man’s cre­ation drags through shad­ow. Pain ris­es not from divine will but from disconnection—a self-inflict­ed wound mis­tak­en for fate. The puri­ty offered freely has been trad­ed for unrest, and love has been dis­tort­ed into pos­ses­sion and loss.

    The poem makes clear that this is not a pun­ish­ment hand­ed down but a choice made repeat­ed­ly through igno­rance and ego. Man’s domain, once shared with heav­en, has been encased in walls of sor­row built by ambi­tion, cru­el­ty, and indif­fer­ence. Still, the divine con­tin­ues to reach out, offer­ing reminders through beau­ty and grace that remain untouched. Flow­ers bloom in ruins, doves coo beneath storms, and stars keep shin­ing above cities drown­ing in noise. But man, ears dulled by com­plaint, blames the heav­ens for the fire in his own hands. This blind­ness turns joy into bur­den and mer­cy into some­thing sus­pect. The truth is not hidden—it is ignored.

    Yet even in this bro­ken­ness, the orig­i­nal thread of divine inten­tion has not snapped. It hums soft­ly beneath the sur­face, wait­ing to be rec­og­nized, call­ing human­i­ty back to a state of grace. The poem does not offer despair as a con­clu­sion, but an awak­en­ing. It urges the read­er to see not just the con­trast, but the invitation—a return to align­ment with the world as it was made, not as it has become. That return is not myth­i­cal or dis­tant; it begins in choice, in vision, in reclaim­ing the sim­plic­i­ty of light and the unshak­able qui­et of Love. In doing so, man might once again make beau­ty strong, and strength kind.

    Through this con­trast, the poem cap­tures the weight of respon­si­bil­i­ty and the light­ness of pos­si­bil­i­ty. It does not deny suf­fer­ing, but repo­si­tions it as a sign of the dis­tance between what is and what could be. The suf­fer­ing of the human world is not born of mal­ice from above but of for­get­ful­ness below. What is divine still exists—it sim­ply waits to be seen. The gap between the two worlds is not mea­sured in time or space but in per­spec­tive. It is bridged by the heart’s deci­sion to open again to truth.

    Two Worlds ulti­mate­ly calls for recog­ni­tion, not regret. It beck­ons read­ers to strip away the noise, the dust, the lay­ers of hard­ened sor­row, and find again the gen­tle pow­er that still puls­es in every drop of rain and ray of light. It is a reminder that while mankind may build his own king­doms of ash, the king­dom of heav­en remains—untouched, unchanged, and always near. Recon­nec­tion does not require grandeur, only the humil­i­ty to see and the courage to soft­en. In that shift, in that small but potent return to source, the two worlds may begin to con­verge again. Not in per­fec­tion, but in peace.

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