What Lay Below

A man explores a cave in his canoe.

What lay below the stars, in those secret places, those hidden from roaming eyes?
Her name is Lady Wisdom.
Who tread on the place where God once lay, and the places in which he still lies?
Her name is Lady Folly.
And when she kissed the earth, with her soft and pale face, who heard the sound?
Her name is Death.
The darkness has both teeth and hands, and it lay in the hidden places: this is why Death abounds.