In the midst of darkness and nothingness

God became increasingly bored

His subscription to Heaven’s Digest had expired

A new big screen he could not afford

He needed something for amusement

A broken object that he could revamp

So he rummaged around in his closet

And pulled out an old lava lamp

He tinkered and puttered to repair it

Soon the old lamp looked like it was new

He wiped the glass clean of its smudges

And blew the dust off the old lampshade too

“Let there be Light,” he proudly exclaimed

As the lamps contents began to swirl

Graceful rotations of cosmic unity

With the iridescence of mother of pearl

He gazed at the motion for hours

Looking outside it was billions of years

What if we’re all part of the contents

Of a lava lamp that God bought at Sears

Copyright 2012 Patrick Granfors