Creation of Darkness
I form the light, and create darkness:
I make peace, and create evil:
I the LORD do all these things.
Isaiah 45:7
God Can make God can make
a subtle wind to a subtle wind to
shiver the spine set the spine
of a new born child in a palsied breech
and etch the and invest a wave
mild Sargasso in to slip a child
each ripple. into the sea.
So too, do So too, do
His vapors wind His shrouded fogs
their way to wind their way
weary minds demanding
to soothe the weary minds
Human weight. repentance.
And stop the and raise
upraised arm the upraised arm
with pliant with cunning
green eyes that glazed eyes that
ease compassion. excite with passion.
The myriad ways The myriad ways
are Man are god
reflected only in reflected only in
reflections seen carnival mirrors
-of Him -an image
whose tender of duplicity as
sagacious care careful as shrewd
relives in each tabulating each
the fallen sparrow. frozen sparrow.
Grand Island, New York
1977
Grand Island Series
©1977 Creation of Darkness — Joseph W. Yarbrough
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