Imagine if you can, what it is like To have no possessions at all, nothing Very few people are able to imagine Such a thing to have nothing at all Well let us, you and I, try to imagine Something a hundred times harder Not just to have nothing at all But when there was nothing at all The very beginning of time The dawn of history Page one Nothing at all The earth itself Without form and void Only an emptiness, formless A dark endless waste of water No living thing, no plant or tree No bird or animal, nothing This is before people Before anything at all A void, sitting silent Still and then nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing ...