That was a sigh-worthy poem.

Indeed. *sigh*

May I recommend Paul Winter and Friends 'Golden Apples of the Sun'? A beautiful musical setting for this lovely poem. Always get the tears flowing...

Never read the poem before, enjoying the language and the imagery, and then, wham! got to the last three lines. Those have been in my soul since childhood, a half a century ago, because they're cited on an inside leaf of Ray Bradbury's magnificent short story collection, "The Golden Apples of the Sun." First time I've ever read them in context. Thank you. ..bruce..

Finally….a poem that I actually like. Good job !

Done and done, Kurt. Excellent suggestion. I value it.

God used part of the male to form the female to show that they were actually the same created being, two halves of a whole. Man searches for that companion. The search has created beautiful
art.

( thanks for recommending the musical versions.)

It is The Great Dance where the dual images of God - equal in essence but so different in substance! - seek union without annihilation, where the two become one yet still are two. And we dance upon fields of grace, Grace...

Kurt and grace. Concomitant comments. One biblical, one secular, both enshrining the same cosmogony. Great Dance, indeed. But, isn't the consummation of the "union" of the opposites on the scale at hand a "small" death, annihilation?

Me: It seems like, for a moment (maybe even the best of moments...) the self is lost in the other, but then there is a gentle, loving separation and the self returns. Being that annihilation, I believe, implies permanent cessation, I don't think it is the correct word for this union. But I could be wrong...