Luckily the Creator

did not make man first creature

nor take us into His confidence

as to plans of creation. We

would have balked at producing

spiders, snakes glittery-scaled, beady-eyed

hyenas, some insects, all tigers.

“Such waste!” we would have lamented over

tropical birds, fields of wild flowers, stars

and dreams. We would have constructed

a tidy universe scaled down to our own

Lilliputian desires,

with no volcanos, no desert stretches,

no whirling of chance-spun atoms,

no mystic visions to confuse

and embarrass the soul.

Luckily, the Creator gave us all

without so much as a “by your leave”!

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