A Poetic Book of Abraham
Martin Ademovic
Dedication
To those who walk
before they understand,
and to the truths
that arrive
before language.
Table of Movements
I. The Gods Who Stayed
II. The Disturbance
III. The First Leaving
IV. Faith Before Belief
V. What Could Not Yet Be Seen
VI. God Learns Time
VII. Death Without Fulfillment
VIII. Exile
IX. Imagination at Work
X. The Name Becomes Meaning
XI. Abraham the Facilitator
XII. The One Who Walked Further
XIII. The One Who Named the Pattern
XIV. History Learns to See
XV. The Room That Remains
I. The Gods Who Stayed
Before Abraham,
the gods stayed put.
They lived in stone,
in the patient muscles of statues,
in the careful grammar of stars.
They ruled,
but they did not wander.
They demanded,
but they did not wait.
They existed everywhere,
yet lived nowhere.
They had power—
but no life.
II. The Disturbance
Then a man felt
what had no image.
Not a voice at first—
a thinning.
A loosening.
The gods did not fall.
They simply grew quiet.
What pressed upon him
was not instruction,
but direction.
Not certainty,
but movement.
III. The First Leaving
He left
without knowing what leaving meant.
No doctrine in his hands,
no map in his mind.
Only a future
that refused to explain itself.
Faith did not arrive as belief.
Faith arrived as a step.
IV. Faith Before Belief
Belief waits for meaning.
Faith moves without it.
Belief explains.
Faith carries.
He carried
what he could not name.
V. What Could Not Yet Be Seen
The truth was too large
for the eyes of its own moment.
It entered the world
as motion,
not clarity.
As a body walking,
not an idea standing still.
The beginning
never knows
what it begins.
VI. God Learns Time
When the man walked,
God walked with him.
No longer tied to mountain or shrine,
no longer held by name or face.
A God without place
must learn time.
A God who promises
must learn waiting.
Thus began
the life of God.
VII. Death Without Fulfillment
He died
before the promise ripened.
This was not failure.
Seeds do not see forests.
Beginnings do not see endings.
This is how truth survives.
VIII. Exile
Centuries later,
the land was lost.
Stone burned.
Walls fell.
Then memory began to work.
Not to repeat,
but to complete.
What history broke,
imagination carried forward.
IX. Imagination at Work
Imagination did not lie.
It finished
what life had started.
The past grew meaning
because the future demanded it.
The story became real
by being necessary.
X. The Name Becomes Meaning
Abraham grew
without aging.
Ancestor became example.
Example became question.
Question became path.
What one man lived
a people learned to see.
XI. Abraham the Facilitator
He did not invent God.
He invented the space
where God could live.
He cleared history
of fixed altars
so the divine could move.
He did not speak theology.
He opened time.
XII. The One Who Walked Further
Later, another walked.
Not to leave the land,
but to inhabit the space
that had been cleared.
God, now practiced in history,
took flesh.
Because once God had learned to walk,
God could learn to stay.
XIII. The One Who Named the Pattern
Then came the one
who named it.
He said:
This trust belongs to all.
This walking has no border.
What was lived
became concept.
What was carried
became known.
XIV. History Learns to See
Truth does not arrive complete.
It arrives early.
It waits for centuries
to be understood.
History is not the enemy of revelation.
History is its education.
XV. The Room That Remains
Still the truth is too large.
Still it enters first as motion,
not explanation.
Still someone must walk
before others understand.
Final Line
Before God could live among humans,
someone had to make room.
That someone walked.
Marty's thoughts 
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