Atoms

In the beginning
 There was darkness
 A formless blackness
 Amorphous
 Atonal
 Discordant
 Disharmonious
 The Prima Materia
 A primordial pool
 Of death
 Decay
 Life
 And birth
 Suspended in a timeless continuum
 The spiralling substrate of
 The anonymous, the absolute
 For nothing came before
 The movement of God over these waters
 Form and matter joined
 A ray shines with no pause
 From its coming to its being
 Order was created
 Order was constructed
 And in the purest of acts
 The summit of the universe was created
 I am in heaven and on earth
 In water and in the air
 I lead forth the roaring waters
 I am the wind that shapes the mountains
 I am both cloud and rain
 The wave of the ocean, the beam of the sun
 I am the animals and the plants
 The babe in the womb
 The one born, and the one yet to be conceived
 I am present, everywhere
 I am the flesh and soul of man
 The Mother and the Father
 I am the pain of the sick
 The heart of saints
 And the will of sinners
 The machine is the achievement
 Of which man is capable
 If he relies entirely on himself
 God is no longer needed
 Eventually,
 It transforms him into a machine himself
 When nation grows old
 The arts grow cold
 And commerce settles on every tree
 It is the enterprise of industrial civilisation
 That modern wars have arisen
 And will arise
 It is on the same impoverished soil
 That empires have grown
 And by the same greed
 That many civilisations have been destroyed
 The body
 For the sake of which we desire wealth
 Is the ultimate cause of all wars
 If we are to progress
 We must not cease from mental fight
 Till we have built Jerusalem
 I have no more faith
 Than a grain of mustard seed
 In the future history of civilisation
 Which I now know
 Is doomed to destruction
 What a joy it is to think of!
 O good beginning
 To what vile ending must you fall!
 And in the end
 There was darkness
 A formless blackness
 Amorphous
 Atonal
 Discordant
 Disharmonious
 The negredo
 Death
 Decay
 Life
 Birth
 A timeless continuum