God beginning
God
God beginning God,
who is without beginning or end,
whose existence you cannot borrow or lend
God beginning God on the day when
all creation will embrace again,
like a mother and daughter,
who were long estranged from one another,
when joy will be like every soul's brother
In the day when
all the earth shall be filled with the knowledge
of Israel's Beloved One,
east to west,
north to south,
like the waters fill the ocean wide,
like waves that break at God's countryside
Like the waters flow,
so will the earth know
Israel's God
beginning to be God,
to all the fire stars
taken out from their sheaths of time and space,
to become fires of joy in the righteous face
All the world shall know,
when the God of Israel begins to be God,
to all the nations of time and place,
and the face of the wicked
has burned with shame,
then the earth shall know God's name
All shall know
how God gave God this way to begin,
in the first love of mother and daughter,
in the first love of giving birth
They shall know that joy of God beginning to be God,
to all the songs of the angel,
to all the songs of lion and ox and eagle and adam
and tree
The imprisoned shall know the beginning that sets them free