Fanciful figures
God awoke and switched on the bedside lamp,
wondering Who the sleeper was –
and His infinite Self has ever since been responding.
One became two, then fluoresced into numberless existence.
In the (beginningless) beginning, the Word was God
but God issued the Word and all manner of things
were alight and shaped into being within the formless pitch.
Or say a Whim stirred the infinite Quiescence
and, in transition, illusory bubbles
provisionally blinded and estranged each drop.
None of this is the unutterable Truth, of course –
only fanciful figures we’ve been given
by Those in the know, mercifully to assuage
our rootless, lonely, peripatetic selves.
O child of God, before God woke up there was
no consciousness nor anything of which to be conscious.
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| (painting by Mark Hodges) |
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