The Yellow Rose

In the midst of the forever night,

A word was spoken, and there was light.

And on that first day, as the sun arose,

God knew he had to create a yellow rose.

So within his heart, he formed a plan,

To create a heaven, and an earth, and a man.

On the earth did life begin,

With the rose of light, a gift from him.

Around the rose he grew a garden,

To show the rose the state his heart was in.

And from the earth, he took some dust,

Formed a man, and gave him his trust.

In the garden was the man to tend,

The yellow rose of God, to each day’s end.

And for this trust, the man was given,

God’s promise of a little piece of the rose of Eden.

God knew that in order to finish his plan,

He had to create a woman for the man.

While gazing upon the beauty of his rose,

God began the very first words of prose.

And in the garden of Eden that day,

God completed the world’s very first play.

As the words took form, on that sixth day’s eve,

Woman was born, as beautiful as a poem can be.

Marc W. George

August 20^th, 1994