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The Creation

 

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Whether it is ZETA

or

SIGMA,

it is all PHI BETA!

And God stepped out on space,
And he looked around and said:
I'm lonely--
I'll make me a world filled with
royal blue and pure white treasures.

And far as the eye of God could see
Darkness covered everything,
Blacker than a hundred midnights.

 

Then God smiled,
And the light broke,
And the darkness rolled up on one side,
And the light stood shining on the other,
And God said: That's good!

 

Then God reached out and took the light in His hands,
And God rolled the light around in His hands
Until He made the sun;
And He set that sun a- blazing in the heavens.
And the light that was left from making the sun
God gathered up in a shining ball
And flung against the darkness,
Spangling the night with a
royal blue sky and pure white stars.
Then down between
The darkness and the light
He hurled the world; And God said: That's good!

 

Then God himself stepped down--
And the sun was on His right hand,
And the moon was on His left;
The pure white stars were clustered about His head,

 

And the earth was under His feet.
And God walked, and where He trod
His footsteps hollowed the valleys out
And bulged the mountains up.

 

Then He stopped and looked and saw
That the earth was hot and barren.
So God stepped over to the edge of the world
And He spat out the seven seas--
He batted His eyes, and the lightning flashed--
He clapped His hands, and the thunders rolled--
And the waters above the earth came down,
The cooling waters came down.

And the white roses blossomed,
The pine tree pointed his finger to the sky,
And the oak spread out his arms,
The lakes cuddled down in the hollows of the ground,
And the rivers ran down to the sea;
And God smiled again,
And the rainbow appeared,
And curled itself around His shoulder.

 

Then God raised His arm and He waved His hand
Over the sea and over the land,
And He said: Bring forth! Bring forth!
And quicker than God could drop His hand,

"Pure white doves"

Had split the air with their wings;

And God said, “That’s good!”

 

Then God walked around,
And God looked around
On all that He had made.
He looked on His world
With all its living things
And God said, “I'm lonely still.”

 

Then God sat down--
On the side of a hill where He could think;
By a deep, wide river He sat down;
With His head in His hands,
God thought and thought,
Till He thought: I'll make me a man - 
A SIGMA MAN!

 

Up from the bed of the river
God scooped the clay;
And by the bank of the river
He kneeled Him down;
Kneeled down in the dust
Toiling over a lump of clay
Till He shaped it in His own image;

 

Then into it He blew the breath of life,
And man became a living soul.
And God said, “That’s good!”

 

Then God walked around,

And God looked around

On all that he made.

He looked on his world

With all it’s living things

And God said, “Something’s missing!”

 

He took the SIGMA man and made him rest-

Only to create the missing element

Of a world of royal blue and pure white treasures.

He then sat down so he could think

With his head in his hands,

God thought and thought,

Till he thought: “I’ll make me a woman!”

 

He cut him open and took out a rib.

Kneeled down in the dust

Toiling over a lump of clay

Til he shaped it in His own image.

 

Then into it he blew the breath of life,

And the woman became a living soul.

The SIGMA arose and embraced the woman.

He declared her as a ZETA woman-

One who can share his colors

And take on a piece of his name.

For she is a woman FINER than aka or dst-

And would bend her back farther than an SGRho.

 

Here on after, they went out

Side-by-side, Hand-in-hand

Conquering the world.

Then God looked down

To see his creation,

And he said, "It is finished!”

*Taken from "The Creation" written by Bro. James Weldon Johnson but additional wording/modification by Soror Shannon N. Graham.**