Apocrypha

In the beginning

there was chaos, but then a gregarious atom

encouraged a clubby atmosphere

where they all gathered and there was order.

At first there were hot gasses, but then

cool season prevailed and

minerals and metals crusted the fires.

One lone amoeba suffered incurable hubris

thought she could do better

and founded a dynasty

on her vision.

In time a she-ape clambered down from the trees

pointed at the sea, and declared 'there is my creatrix!'

Named her daughter Eve

and set her the task of naming others. So Eve

chatted up giraffes and elephants

whales and cricets. She called

a brash Adamai snake-in-the-grass

for offering her figs when she

couldn't give a damnation

for his ignorance. Everything

was fine until he learned to 

wield a pen while she

continued to till the earth.

Eve provided crops for their

offspring and Adam pushed

back the night of eternity

offering superiority and his

own rendering of ineffable truth

that of himself as Supreme Creator

half of him up there

the other down here.