12. AND WELL WE HAVE CREATED AN EARTH

AND WELL WE HAVE CREATED AN EARTH

(once Goodness overflowed the deep)

There is an interdiction between the ways of

God and Man. It's drawn from a cleavage,

as between water and rock: things flow out,

clear water icy cool or the fires and smokes

of volcanic eruption and wrath. That Which Is

separates the two - a rod and a staff together

break through the morass and confusion :

as on a clear morning in Eden when all things,

at Peace eternally, co-existed within a full

awareness of possibility, surety and warmth.

Thoughts filled the great immensity

and goodness itself overflowed the deep.

That now is all gone - fumbling ways of Man,

new ires of the Gods, marks by simpletons

on the barrels of rifles and guns and armaments

of every nature splattered doubt and derision

upon Nature's walls. We are marked now only

by our ledger books - old and dreary, with

erasures and scratch-outs tearing through the pages.

It is so far gone and it is so long over.

A once delicate infusion of life and grace

is now a'sunder - a broken waste.

Remember though always:

once Goodness overflowed the deep.