Lineage (In Answer To Ted Hughes) Poem by Gert Strydom

In the beginning was thought
in the mind of God
who begat sound
who begat word
who begat material formation
of light, air, water
and firm foundation

setting natural dimensions and laws,
forming biological living things,
going past natural selection,
where only the strongest survive

coming alive as mere man
begat from Mary
as a human being
who begat unsurpassable love
and self-sacrifice,
dying, shattered from the presence
of the Father
as a cast out being full of sin
and this linage begun and ended with Him.

[Reference: Lineage by Ted Hughes.]