Creation Questions

God’s eye
scanned, peered into the yet unborn horizon
of a cosmos unmade;
the Divine ilk quivering in anticipation
of all (in the Divine-like) to be made
that rested,
resided in
(soon to rise, to burst unbridled from)
the Deific imagination.

Spirit-breathing, God spake, “Let there be”
and so, came into being;
gradually, greatly differentiating…

Daylight from Night…

Did God know
that this very deed distinguished,
established
time?
And that, in time to come,
there would be some
who labored
and some who reclined in day,
others, doing one or the other, at night;
and others still, especially during the latter,
practicing their wicked arts
for ill under dark-cover?

I presume so.

Sky…

Did God know
the firmament
would be infinite;
ever-expanding
never-ending;
thus, never-needing
to fear a Tower of Babel
built by humankind’s less-than-kind,
lost-of-mind,
holier-than-Thou self-identity,
reaching,
breaching heaven’s harmony?

I presume so.

Seas and Land…

Did God know
the ratio
of water to land
of Earth
roughly would be the same
as that of the human corpus;
thus, mirroring,
matching
one body
to another body,
both celestially,
wonderfully made?

I presume so.

Suns, Moons, Stars…

Did God know,
as with Sky,
that galaxies
astoundingly would abound
by the millions, billions, trillions,
throughout space
and beyond time?

I presume so.

Creatures of Land and Air and Sea…

Did God know
of the theory…
the arc of evolutionary heredity
and molecular biology;
all, through history,
moving,
making,
manifesting in alterations of identity,
viability, longevity (and, for some, sometimes not)?

I presume so.

Humankind…

Did God know
that humankind,
the s’pposed creation’s crown,
in the Divine Image
made a little lower than angels,
in time, through time,
since the Garden’s act of disobedience,
addicted, fettered to power
to o’erpower others,
lusting for pleasure
to benefit self,
oft (too oft and by freewill’s necessary coincidence!)
would prove to be a curse of the cosmos?

I presume so.

Whene’er, howe’er will it end
and, thus, begin
anew?

Does God know?

I pray so.

 

Endnotes:
Tower of Babel, a reference to the story recounted in Genesis 11.1-11
Garden’s act of disobedience, a reference to the story of the fall of humankind in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3.1-19)

Illustration: The Creation of Adam (Creazione di Adamo) (1512), Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475-1564)