Saints are pure: simple, plain,
Unmixed, neat, straight, and true;
Uninvolved and disentangled ...
Uncombined and absolute.
Demons are complex: tangled skein,
Labyrinths and Gorgian knots
Snarled and fouled, confused, muddled;
Embrangled in Hyracanian woods.

Thus joined, hooked up in copulation,
Fastened, fixed, lashed and trussed,
Hand-in-glove, dovetailed, battened,
Firm, secure, and hung together:
Mankind is bound, rope and anchor,
Bowline knot and harness hitch,
Inside clinch, and hawser bend,
Couple, link, and bridge ...

Sectioned, parted, severed,
Ruptured, fractured, split and slit,
Non-adhesive rifted, rent and ripped,
Chipped, crazed, checked, and chapped,
Cohered, adhered, stuck together,
Staying close, Mankind clings -
Holding on like some old creeper:
Bramble, ivy, briar burr.
So inconsistent! non-adhesive,
Useless as a rope of sand -
Man is lax, slack and loose
Flapping, hanging, and detached.
Unified ... associated,
Some tie-up, fuse and blend:
In cahoots they pool their interests
'Til fortunes join in common cause.

Atomised ... in dissolution
Ravaged by the tear of time,
All break-up, fall to pieces ...
Crumble, wear, and waste to dust.
Thus, I am the whole, tout ensemble,
Each and every, be and end ....