The Creation
OUT of the white and the blue
Out of the mist and the ice
Out of the wind and the flame
The creature came.
With eyes as brilliant as the light
With ears as lucid as the sound
With feet as sudden as the thought
The creature caught
A breath from the yawning sky
A drop from the nodding sea
A root from the sleeping earth
And from their birth
Measured the length of the seasons
Balanced the rhythm of the tides
Secured the growing of the seed
And woke the need
Of the dream inside the egg
Of the thirst within the cell
Of the shape beneath the bone
Then took a stone
And breaking the silent void
And loosing the swollen stream
And cutting the golden thread
The creature said:
Here on this dot of bounded space
Here in this point of moving time
Here with this seal of life and death
I fix my breath
That all the works of my hands
That all the passions of my heart
That all the wonders of my brain
Shall here remain.
I, Gilgamesh, Rama, Adam
I, Phoenician, Saxon, Mayan
I, Peasant, Leader, Architect
By this reject