Preface

In the Beginning

vance agee   

From the ends of the endless nowhere 
To the depths of the fathomless deep, 
The boundless all, the ageless ever 
Is shaken by a cry; 
A still, small voice is crying: 
Who, who am I?    
Then louder and louder, the voice is crying: 
Who or what or where am I? 
Louder and louder until the scream:  
Let there be!   

And in an instant the answer comes; 
In an instant of time the answer comes; 
In the heavens and the earth and life the answer comes; 
In tears and tears of joy; in victories and defeats; 
In the drama of the ages and the calm that follows.   

And from the ends of the endless nowhere 
To the depths of the fathomless deep, 
In the boundless all, in the ageless ever,  
Peace reigns again.

N.B. Published on-line, in a contest anthology; also published  previously in an earlier poetry contest.  Part of a full-length paper first  written in 1964, the poem introduces: “The Method of Creation”.  I  AM creates the universe and all time in non-time, in an “unexpanded  dimension” which opens His self-communion to us in the expanded  dimensions that we call the Universe.  He does this in order to create a communion within Himself and with us.  By this act, He knows  Himself, and we can know Him. Without this act, nothing exists— including this page and our computers and us. 

He is the Great Author of the Great Drama.!