Aperture

In the beginning God created the world. Waste and void, waste and void. And darkness was upon the face of the deep.

And when there were men, in their various ways, they struggled in torment towards God. Blindly and vainly, for man is a vain thing, and man without God is a seed upon the wind: driven this way and that, and finding no place of lodgement and germination. They followed the light and the shadow, and the light led them forward to light and the shadow led them to darkness, Worshipping snakes or trees, worshipping devils rather than nothing: crying for life beyond life, for ecstasy not of the flesh. Waste and void. Waste and void.

And darkness on the face of the deep.

Choruses from "The Rock"

T.S. Eliot