Tuesday, September 30, 2008

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.

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