THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
"The Lord God made a covenant with us in Horeb…." (Deuteronomy 5:3)


Engraved on huge basalt boulders
Atop the highest volcanoes
On the first planet of Alpha Centauri,
Twenty-meter high letters declare:
I Am The Lord Your God.

On every beach of every island
In every archipelago
On the second planet of Antares,
Inscribed in the sand:
You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me.

In the unending, thick jungles
On the fourth planet of Pollux,
Strips of land have been deforested
And replaced with fields of peonies that spell out:
Observe The Sabbath, To Keep It Holy.

In every oasis found in all the red, ferric deserts
That cover every inch
Of the fifth planet of Vega,
Palm trees have been planted as words that declare:
Honor Your Father And Your Mother.

On every moon: You Shall Not Murder.
On every comet: You Shall Not Commit Adultery.
On every asteroid: You Shall Not Steal.

On the bottom of the blue oceans
That envelop the surface
Of the ninth planet of Deneb,
Huge coral reefs have been placed that read:
You Shall Not Bear False Witness.

Chiseled in the ice
On all the glaciers
That dominate the frozen continents
On the tenth planet of Bellatrix:
You Shall Not Covet.

And here on earth,
In the chromosomes of every virus and germ,
Every insect, fish, reptile, mammal and bird,
Is encrypted and encoded:
You Shall Not Take The Name Of The Lord Your God In Vain.