Vol 9, Num 3 :: 2010.02.05 — 2010.02.18
EVE
We walked with our God today:
Eat not, he said, of that tree’s fruit
Knowledge of good and evil weighs heavy
You will die at Fear’s hands.
Choose life and love your Creator.
We walked with the Liar today:
Take and eat, he said, of that tree’s fruit
Filtering good from evil brings answers
You will thrive on polarization.
Choose knowledge and be like your Creator.
We did not walk with God today:
With Adam, I ate to remove the hues of mystery
Our eyes were opened to a world achromatic
And we, the naked half,
The portion damned by the scheme we had chosen,
We knew
Fear.
The curse commenced its life-shriveling hold
In the cool of the day we hid.
DAY OF THE LORD
And for three hours, Fear absorbed all light
As Love bore the curse and died.
EVE (reprise)
We walked with our God today:
Garden bower has withered to a dusty path between towns,
“Cool of the day” begins a sour fable of regret.
Person-blind, we continued to reason
In self-distraction from fear,
Systematists confounded by the day’s events
Weary of the fruit we’ve been eating since Eden.
Until
The tree of life broke bread at our table
Take and eat, he said, of my body broken for you.
Our eyes were opened
We knew
Him.
Fear fled
And Love re-bent light into a many-colored bow.
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