Devotional Poetry

Contemplating the Creation of the Universe

Contemplating the Creation of the Universe

I sing of silence!
The uninformed silence before the word was spoken,
before the characters were joined together,
and link inseparably to the act.

This is the song of precreation.
of unformed, unchaotic, unexpressive, lonely nonexistence.

This is that soul rending silence
that proceeded the primordial atom,
that proceeded God's spoken invocation,
which generated creation's melody.

God--
the uncreated, unknowable, preexistent--
pondered the lonely silence,
pondered the nothingness of precreation,
of nonexistence.

God breath His spirit
across the panorama of nonexistence,
knitted together the B and E of creation,
and spoke the word that generated material reality.

BE shattered the silence
condensed out of nothingness
the primordial atom,
and reverberated through its body
instilled energy
into the elements of material reality,
generating creation's symphony.

Poet's Note: ▶︎

I wrote this on 1 Qudrat 160 B.E.