In the beginning

                                            all was darkness,

                                            no light enhanced,

                                            no shadows marred;

                                            no truth nor lies

                                            to hold or hide

                                            naught,

                                            but darkness-

                                            to embrace

                                            as it embraced all else.
 

     These words are written in the black, gothic style. The words are upon a gray-ish cloud, a lightening of the blackness which frames this page.  Exceptions to this blackness are two ghost-white hands which reach from either side of the page toward the reader.  They seem to reach forth in a tender embrace as described in the poem.