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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