In the beginning There was nothing Nothing was alive Nothing poured out nothing from the Darkness Cast no shadow Through twelve mirrors Out poured Everything Light Hidden candles Through the empty space Where the thirteenth stood waiting above Between two sides Of the same dark river of light One foot in the water One foot in the sand The water flowed down from Heaven And turned against itself Blown forward and back By the winds of time Darkness against darkness Electricity began to sparkle in the water Six mirrors turned against six mirrors Lightning struck twelve times Melting the sand that fell from the sky as stars And turning it to invisible glass Twelve spheres that joined at the centre Where was hidden Nothing In the beginning