Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

by Octavia E. Butler

“Darkness Gives shape to the light As light Shapes the darkness. Death Gives shape to life As life Shapes death. God And the universe Share this wholeness Each Defining the other: God Gives shape to the universe As the universe Shapes God.” And then, after a moment of silence, the last, the closing words: “We have lived before We will live again We will be silk, Stone, Mind, Star, We will be scattered, Gathered, Molded, Probed. We will live, And we will serve life. We will shape God And God will shape us Again, Always again Forevermore.”