It is not clear who the villain
is in the story of The Fall.
Is it God wanting things to remain
as they are? Is it the Serpent who
knows too much of a good thing
is no good at all? Those afraid
to accuse the cosmically divine
point the finger to Adam and Eve.
They were, as the saying would
come to be said, between a rock
and a hard place. And who’s to know
if those other two did not say to each
other, “Betcha!” and waited for two
truths to collide. The fact that we are
drawn to a paradise that lacks freedom
and a freedom that lacks paradise cannot be denied –
the evidence called history describes.
And who among us has not heard,
“Walk with me” and “Eat of the tree”?
And know the echoes of our answers.
-Byron Hoot
