Fairy Tale
by Martin Jervis

      
      
Once upon a time, a great deity cast a line,
Caught word made flesh, created and
Saved all creatures earth bound passage.
Oxygen made if not discovered, chemical
Process plus hydrogen two equals water. Out
Of the primordial soup crawled warm food,
Multiplication and various diets, first cause.

Warmth sucked out, cold imports rushed in
To carve ice statues, misplaced sun, hard
Water kills all tongues. Holy Spirit, Paraclete,
Consoler, Comforter, Jehovah, Spirit of Truth,
Dove, you killed them all, distraught, learned
Complexities of death of creation and creation
Of death, replenish that blue earth, sow seeds.

All things reproduced, land and sea, walked
And swam, tiniest microbe to largest whale,
Fauna, flora, special places beneath the
Corrected sun, left in the hands of Zamiel,
Beelzebub, Sammael, Belial, Lucifer,
Ahrimanes, Mephistopheles, he swore
Never to return to that spinning sphere.