The Second Inquiry

We've heard about Friday,
and all the blood shed,
the pain that was endured;
None could forget what happened that day
(The Gospel According To Gibson assured that).

And we know about Sunday,
the women climbing the path,
still dark,
waiting for the sunrise,
though the Son had already risen.

We know about the Friday earthquake,
and have heard of the Sunday angels.

But what, O Lord, of Saturday?
Where were you that day
between death and life?

Were you in Judaica,
as some have said,
in combat with Azazel,
Lucifer, the Beast?
But then why should the battle have lasted so long?

Were You sleeping,
that Saturday,
that seventh day,
that Sabbath,
keeping the Lord's day in Your tomb,
resting from Your work of Salvation?

Was God's rest
Recaptured
by the Lord of the Sabbath?

Three days in one memory,
three acts in one work,
Dying, death, undying.
Why the day of death?
Why is it that
on the Second Day
The Second Person
of the Three Persons in One God
descended,
humbled to complete the work?

The First Inquiry

What shall we say, then?
Regarding the questions of "how" and "when,"
How can we speak of
When there was no "when"?

These twin constraints
of space and time
(if twins they are,
and not one-and-the-same),...
Which is the elder?

Or did God speak before Creation?
Did the Word have need of words?
I assume the angels sang.
Could they sing without words?
What music that'd be.

But then, perhaps, when God first
opened His Mouth,
that "first" was the first "first."

Did the spatial act of God speaking,
"Let there be Light,"
"there" after "Let" and "Light" after "be,"
One word, then another,
First one word, then another
word after the one before--

Was that the beginning
of both time and space?