Eternal Rhapsody

<I>What was before Creation is not known</br>By mortal intellects...this Mystery</br>Is only understood by God alone</br>Who spoke the Word and all things came to be.</br>Omnipotence looked out on emptiness</br>And Chaos suddenly was cast aside</br>The universe replaced it with success</br>When light outran the darkness with one stride.</br>For space and time were brought into the game</br>And then the void began to disappear</br>Thus nothing was no more...space overcame</br>The empty depths and time at last was here.</br>So Truth before the Cosmos was designed</br>Was only known to God's Omniscient Mind.</I></p><p>--Sonnet 12 of <I>Eternal Rhapsody</I>