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R.E. Slater - The Eighth Day of Creation



May 13, 2020 – The Park Forum


The Eighth Day of Creation
by R.E. Slater


O' Father God,
    who spake bright worlds
into being and becoming,
    who guides forces of
renewing goodness
    and bounteous energy;
be our hope and stay
    during days of evil. 

Deliver Thy people
    who walk your love,
from crimes of
    injustice and hate;
guide thy creation
    its bounteous courses,
from barrenness
    and childless joy.

Do not abandon us
    nor this frail earth,
to wickedness
    and ruinous sin;
but come bringing
    peace and goodwill,
during dark days
    and evil dreads.

Thy worlds were
    made in Thy image;
self-creating worlds
    of atoning goodness,
of soul redeeming love,
    of resurrecting grace;
all now sadly within webs
    of sorrowful agency.

Be the All-Seeing Poet
    over our affairs; direct
Thy loving conviction
    with holy compassion
upon those spewing hate;
    whose lips speak daily lies
and restless slander; false
    shepherds of undead souls.

To those who seek
    Thee not, who rage
within, who harm;
    be not still Thy Spirit
which stills broken hearts,
    which opens blinded eyes,
which unstops deaf ears,
    raising lepers to walk again.

Such harlots of humanity
    look not within but hate,
spinning lies and deceits
    of every kind; such whores
of creation breed every kind
    of evil unrelenting their sin;
to these close their mouths,
    lay bare their nakedness.

You have birthed worlds
    promising Eden, yet we
destroy Thy holy earth,
    denying its promise, by
unlove and fell deeds;
    may Eden renew again
our hearts of hard clays,
    to be yielded soils remade.


R.E. Slater
April 21, 2020

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