"The Second Day" ~ The Imaginative Conservative

What does it mean, he made a dome, a wall
To separate the waters below from those
Above? What are these waters above it all,
This cosmic ocean beyond the heavens? He chose
Mystery to describe to us the canvas
Of the night and day. And just what is the sky?
The abode of gods, of angels, of stars and planets?
Of clouds, of airish wights, where beanstalks high
Reach up to the homes of giants awaiting their end?
It is unfilled potential, beautiful
Potency, which to our imagination bends,
But only after the unfilled becomes full.
His “Let there be,” creates the space for more.
He sees it good and good it is therefore.

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