Blackness:
Emptiness, darkness and constantly blind.
And nothingness lies all around
	Blackness:
Cold and frightening and casually unkind,
   No sense of touch in either hand,
	Where do you stand?
No sound.

	Blackness:
Uncaring, no sight and no smell,
Falling alone through limitless space.
	Blackness:
Wrapped up with no light in your shell,
   Eternally trapped in silent gloom,
	An infinite room,
A vacant place.

	Blackness:
Within a lonely tomb encased,
Heaven and earth lying asleep.
	Blackness:
A grave, a formless empty waste,
   Mindless and senseless, silence infernal,
	Blindness eternal,
Darkness over the deep.

	Blackness:
And falling, continually stumbling,
Lost in a world without sight.
	Blackness:
Then softly, enormously rumbling,
   As you makes your choice.
	The sound of your voice,
“Let there be light!”

	Blackness:
And then, the light fills the world,
Starlight and moonlight and light from the sun.
	Blackness:
Night watches slowly as day is unfurled,
   Tossed to the Fates
	Morning awaits,
Creation begun.

	Blackness:
And then there was light.

					1974