Of course He knew
They would eat the fruit.
Just as He knew ha nachash
Would want them to do.
And of course He knew
Wickedness would abound
Until He should regret having
Made them at all–
When He would at last summon the very
Waters of Darkness He had ordered
To keep back beyond his circle.
And of course He knew that
Someone like Noah would care.
And he did.
As had Enoch before him.
And of course He knew that Noah’s progeny would not
Fill the Earth as He commanded them.
And of course He knew that
Handing them over to the Watchers
Would not fix them, either.
And of course He knew that even
His own chosen people
Would scarcely follow his Law
Even under his own mighty Arm.
And of course He knew that the likes of
Moses and Joshua and Caleb would.
And He knew there would be others.
And there were.
And of course He knew that whether he sowed
Or let the fields lie fallow,
He would gather his crop in time.
And it was for their sake that He made
The two worlds, and not just the one.
And, of course, it was never any secret that
He counted the gold and silver as
Worthy of the second world,
And not the clay or the lead or the dust.
And of course He knew that
Some would pretend anyway
That in being that clay or lead or dust,
They had not forsaken a sacred trust
And squandered a sacred life
And disobeyed a sacred edict.
And because He still cared so much–
Even after all that–
He sent his Son–
His glorious Son–
That no one could miss the Gold.
And of course He knew that even so,
There would still be pretenders.
And he warned them of course
For that whole generation—
But so few ever really learn to listen.
Of course it was never about
Making this first world perfect.
It was about finding a family here
Who would belong in the second.
And now of course we are here,
Having been born in our proper time.
And of course it remains to be seen
How all we shall have lived
In the time we have left.
