Hebrew Letters - Creation

Hebrew Letters Aleph Shattered by the sudden sun, great letter of the start Bleeds melismas of creation into the formerly dark.

Within an instant, convoys of new stars are on the move And waterfalls of galaxies spill out of singularities.

Times bolt bends now the arc of space, moving Ever forward to the tap of light, setting past Before the future 'till the rapid feet of night Flee, massless into hyper­space, hollering.

Where nothing holds, all ground, the stakes drive in And dramas of all sizes fill creation, 'Till men and angels, drunken with creation Can speak of it where no breath fills the lung.

Chet Eighth day god who shepherds all the weeks, You make emotions whirl in tidal pools, Where no gas cools and stories take their form.

Both servitude and freedom alternately rule, While precious handcuffs bind the opposites, Enabling our single kind to take a stab At language, either by the tongue or hand.

Tao Last servant letter of the alphabet, What will you do with our great human race, When we, by devil have been shriven And have also been the scouts of Heaven.

We know the things of space will slip away As everlasting physics thins things out.

Though we shelter by the holy Jaffa gate, Your nothingness is wholly known to us.

Carl Estrin