Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Cosmic Villains

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

 hootnhowlpoetry.com

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