Short Textual Exposition

After the beginning, God reconsidered. "Upon further reflection, Let there be Light." Then the Lord saw that it was good.

You see, in the Beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God. After the Word, comes the light. The light shone upon the world, which we know to have preceded the light. It's not clear whether the world preceded the Word. If not, we can suspect that the world was designed by the Word. "Let it be dark and wet and still," speaks the Word, "and let nothing happen within it."

If the world preceded the Word, we must expect its qualities were described by a thought. A vision of darkness, wetness, stillness. Perhaps it was the physical manifestation of this ugly image that drove the Lord to proclaim, "Let there be Light." If such were the case, we might reasonably state: "Before the Beginning was the World, and the Lord said, with a tone of disapproval, 'It is too dark. Let there be Light.'"

Around the Beginning,
Was the World
And the World was of God.
The Word falls like a curse
Upon a wayward son.
Stung by the rebuke,
He shines towards his Father.

In the beginning, there was darkness.
Blessed and blameless was the darkness
in the beginning, when the darkness was.