psalm 6

the Creation psalm  
to the Chief Poet; a psalm of Andrew  
 

1 the light and the darkness  
are poetry, O Lord,  
 
2 for You hang the rolling skies  
like curtains  
to reveal or to conceal  
the beauty of Your Will.  Selah.  
 
3 You fold the darkness away,  
and we behold  
the light of day,  
wherein we have liberty  
to honour Your marvelous works.  
 
4 You usher the sun  
into the bosom of your  
secret heavens,  
 
5 and we behold  
the splendour  
of the nighttime skies,  
 
6 wherein we are numbered  
as earth's dust  
by Thy jubilant stars.  Selah.  
 
7 Thy seas and Thy lands  
are poetry, O Lord,  
whose metaphors  
of mountains and of valleys  
 
8 are the rising and falling  
of our fragile thoughts,  
in perishable bodies,  
 
9 robust at dawn  
and utterly diminished at dusk.  Selah.  
 
10 the verdant trees  
teach us to clap our hands  
with the rhythm  
of the iambs  
of the Great I Am.  
 
11 the choral orchestration  
of the sun, the moon, and the stars  
is a symphonic poem  
that only peace can sing.  Selah.  
 
12 the wingéd birds,  
the seabound flocks,  
the creatures of the rivers  
and the lakes,

13 all are alike to Thee,  
under the metre  
of Thy Great Baton.  Selah.  
 
14 the landlocked hart that panteth,  
the beast enraged, that ranteth,  
the snake in disguise,  
the night owl so wise;  
 
15 they are stanzas, O Lord,  
in the epic litany of life;  
 
16 for our petitions cease not,  
day or night,  
even as Your mercies fail not,  
unto all generations.  Selah.  
 
17 the living soul of man,  
the loftiest poetry  
of Your masterful repertoire,  
 
18 reflects the parsing  
of Your Sovereign Liberty  
that gives him unguent grace,  
 
19 though sin would make  
an heroic tragedy  
of his noncompliant  
stubbornness.  Selah.  
 
20 grant us Your Pleasant Rest, O Lord;  
for in Your Hands  
are our beginning  
and our end.  
 
21 O Poet of Rest,  
restore us to the ensemble  
of Thy majestic repertoire,  
 
22 that we may know that  
Thou art God  
and declare Thy Name forevermore,  
in all of Thy creation.  Selah.  
 
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by Clyve A. Bowen♫