Beginning God

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