THE ZOO GARDEN
In the Zoo Garden
At creation’s dawn
Men were at peace
Before sin was born
The lake waters rippled
Towards the edge of time
While songbirds sang songs
Of divinely written rhyme
Temples built white
To shine in the sun
Plants lived forever without night
Fruit and flowers flowering each one
The animals spoke a language
Understood by man
And pure rain flowed softly
Out of God’s hand
Yet on the other side of this right
Was the face of error’s wrong
Sin’s sad ugly birthchild
Without peace and without song
And men left the Zoo Garden
Never really there at all
Descending into error’s wonderland
Beginning the long downfall
Really it was no fall at all
Rather a steady upward rise
From darkness and ignorance
Back to Paradise as the prize
Millenniums of killing, millenniums of despair
Catastrophes, famine, decay and pain
Sadness, misery no loving care
Millions and millions gone insane
And slowly men rose upwards again
Through black hopeless death
Back into the Zoo Garden
To re-breathe God’s breath
The Garden a creation in the mind of men
An artistic creation of man
Not really existing before
But always just seemingly at hand
When men reached the voices of angels
Their struggle was soon forgotten
Passing their smile filled days
Lost in love songs sung with their begotten
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