BLACK PSALM

BLACK PSALM

1. Thanks be to God for making the darkness:

it isn't enough that you gave us the light;

2. without the night, we couldn't see the stars:

we shouldn't be able to sleep

if there were no rest from brightness.

3. The night brings its own kind of beauty and excitement:

it's the time for leisure and for real enjoyment;

4. we know that black is beautiful:

dark skin a sign of health in a white society;

5. it's blackness that shows up what happens in the light:

the drama on stage or screen

we see from darkened surroundings;

6. the sad sweet songs of past days praised the darkness:

the richest of all tunes in nature

comes from the nightingale.

7. Help us appreciate the dark in your creation:

Lucifer's the one who brings evil,

and he was the angel of light!

8. For you are God, and you rule the darkness as well as the day:

you have made the blackness of space majestic.