The Lord made the universe “naked,”
Not covered from view, by design,
That everything seen in creation
Might show forth His glory divine.
And God made humanity naked.
He told us to multiply thus,
Reflecting in civilization
The Trinity’s nature through us.
For God is a Personal Threesome,
Pure Love, living only in light,
A naked Society, open
To Each Other’s knowledge and sight.
So God made us nude in His image,
His own Triune spirit inside,
That we, in our social condition,
As He, would have nothing to hide.
But hiding and lies were not foreign
To Satan, the foe of our race,
Who got us to sin and start shielding
Our bodies from each other’s face.
Today, with the symbol of clothing,
Society dresses our frame,
Still trying to morally cover
That source of original shame.
But God, always true to His purpose,
Still sends us here swaddled in air,
And makes us relieved to discover
We’re normal when socially bare.
— David L. Hatton, 2/28/2007
from Poems Between Birth and Resurrection ©2013 by David L. Hatton