Day 21. In The Symposium by Plato, Aristophanes suggests that "the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle" and of doubled bodies. Eventually, Zeus thought them too powerful, and commanded Apollo to split these men in half, which is why when people are in love, then or now, they compare the feeling akin to being whole.

Unedited/unpolished, as all my NaPo poems are. Your thoughts are always appreciated. Thank you.

Do you desire to be wholly one; always day and night in one another’s company? for if this is what you desire, I [Hephaestus] am ready to melt and fuse you together, so that being two you shall become one, and while you live live a common life as if you were a single man, and after your death in the world below still be one departed soul, instead of two–I ask whether this is what you lovingly desire and whether you are satisfied to attain this?