The Rule of Three

There are always three names,
Two similars and one

Contrary, and if more
Then all must be reduced.

Business, too, is a game
With hazards, as is math,

Enchanting witchery,
And all must be reduced.

It’s what you do. You see
Your trichromatic world

And reduce it to threes,
Triskele, Trinity,

And tripod. The debate
Tends to what matters more,

The similar monads,
The binaries opposed.

They shift, of course. One, two
Make three. Three, two make one.

Then zero wanders in.
Nothing’s the same again.