On the Beginning of Things and the First Principles of Being or Existence
I.
Before the world, before the sun,
when time was young,
and heaven's hosts together as choir sung
before the angels fell, who came undone.
If Satan's base rebellion was not lost,
like pride cast down (by God with lightning speed),
then mankind would not have to pay the cost,
whilst on the earth a still evolving seed.
Thus, for the fallen angels, hell was made:
but as apple's bitten, Eden's lost in trade.
II.
The sun was formed; as heaven fell,
like rocks from space,
inferno licked the cradled, empty race
of planets, denser now than gaseous shells.
Among them, Earth, where life had given birth;
while the moon ruled the ancient, raw, night sky,
as now-extinct beasts made nest, home, and hearth,
and predators likewise preyed, to then die.
For what untold eons, for ages, since,
a race far greater shall know their promised prince.
III.
Though the great dinosaurs once ruled, the Fates
cut short the threads
of their time on earth, so what new now spreads,
spreads for what eternal Providence awaits!
So, in the Garden of Eden, Adam,
and then Eve, were made. They thrived, and rebelled,
there that self-same season: so that atom
upon atom of man was e'er befell.
Ever since that moment, that ancient time,
man's neither known freedom, nor peace from his crime.
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Ngoc Nguyen
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