THE BEGINNING

A parable...(c) Chuck Durang. Charley's Poetry Corner strikes again.

Photo by Mohamed Ahmed on Unsplash

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In the beginning, was there God?

They said, “Where is God?” as they sat on a limb

And looked about in search of Him.

They said, “Where is God?” and one day came down

And tried to find Him upon the ground.

Saw an awesome shape in a hilltop tree:

“Let us worship here, for it must be He.”

And they said, “This is the beginning.”

But they found no gods in the woodland things

So they searched afar for the King of Kings.

They looked to the mountains and to the moon,

To the sun, the wind, to the stars and soon

They had built a god from a mighty stone

And they worshiped Him when the crops were sown

And they said, “This is the beginning.”

But as time went by and they had no Lord,

They made one of jade and one of board.

Then they made their gods out of mortal men

And they saw that still they must try again.

So they built one day a thinking machine

And they saw their god in this cyberene,

And it said, “This is the beginning...”