Around a flat earth the
edges of providence,
defining thoughts like dra-
gons on old maps.
Great scary monsters from
incomprehensible
depths, imitating the
sin of the gaps.
Good and benevolent concepts of God
leave a whole range of human experience
outside the places that we have allocated for God.
The God of the gaps is a God incarnate in
all the things we don’t understand.
The sin of the gaps, is sin made responsible for
all the things we can’t believe to be created by God.
A split universe of God’s good things,
and all the rest in a great void bereft of God, where sin holds sway.
Like the old flat earth idea,
where people knew their familiar flat earth,
and feared everything beyond
in the mysterious province of dragons and monsters.
Translated by the heart.
2 responses so far ↓
matheikal // June 22, 2009 at 12:01 pm |
It’s difficult to understand the poem, no doubt. However, I believe the stress on sin so emphatic, so overlaid in Christianity that it makes people guilt-ridden, negative in outlook… Why not stress on the goodness there’s on the earth, I wonder.
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epiphanist // June 24, 2009 at 10:56 am |
Hello Matheikal. I get it, I struggled with shoelaces when I was a kid. Day and night could be a helpful metaphor. Would there be any sense in just recognising the day?