LUCIFER: THE OFFICIAL VERSION OF HIS FALL

Lucifer once ruled the nations

Till, raddled with perverted notions

He thought to ask God’s circling stars

To form a flight of gentle stairs

By which he’d scale the heavenly throne,

Defile it with the rebel stain.

He’d dominate the Mount of Meeting

And silence God’s eternal shouting,

Reign a prince in his new birth

Over the outermost poles of the north.

He swore to reach the cloudy peak

And strut on it in God’s bright cloak.

He’d speak like God and spout His name

And wave his arms like wings of flame.

He’d rule with cataracts of words,

Keep order among lesser lords;

A universe with rhyme and reason

Would be a mayhem of confusion:

Lucifer control by pride

The gorgeous chaos he bestrode.

But God was neither drunk nor blind

To what Cosmogony had planned.

In his Omnipotence he froze

Restless Lucifer’s swirling eyes,

Sent a hundred thousand stars

Hornet-buzzing in vast rays

To drive him mad who thought to try

And take the place of the Most High.

They pinioned him, then made him fall

To the utter depths of Hell.

They tangled him and brought him low.

United Zodiac foresaw

That Lucifer in peace or war

Would be no blessing to their realm.

Faces spurned his rending groan:

Four-point body wheeled and spun

Across the Wilderness of Sin

And struck the cinder of the Sun:

Eternity breeds evolution

And drinks the blood of Revolution.

Declaiming innocence of guile

Yet burned clean of the martyr’s role

Lucifer in haughty rancour –

Spewing fire through milky groves –

Condemned the heart of God to canker

And all his satellites as slaves.

Pleas and questions he ignored

In order that the final word

Should stay with him; and then he’d rove

To search for burial and love.