Eureka, Duality of Stability and Change

I always saw the similarities, I never saw the opposing dualities,

I’d looked through the varieties, studied many pluralities

But now, thanks to you, I see it in a simple, “Hello, hey!’

Apollo’s “Allo”, and Nysa’s “Euoi”

Muses and maenads, choruses of ordered approach and spontaneity

Science and Art, City-state and Ascetic, combine the two to find a powerful polemic

I’d seen the relationship between order and chaos, guided by some philosophers

But never imagined it in the forms of Dionysos and Apollo until you showed me later

‘Know them by their fruits’, dithyramb and paean

Indeed it is a most striking duality, ‘Eureka’ their choruses sing together

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