God breathed the breath of life

And Eve sighed.

Eyelids flickered open and Eve

Glimpsed a Glory

The face of Love.

And Eve loved.

In her human love

The greatest Lover of all.

But alas !

She was created to be

The consort of Adam the Gardener.

She obeyed but never forgot

The Glory that she first beheld

In the dream -state of her birth.

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Friday afternoon, Adam asleep  in the shade,

Replete with fruit, intoxicating and sweet

Restless, Eve wandered.

A hissing whistling sound

She followed it 

Into the very midst

Of Eden, the spot

Where Adam had not

Taken her-ever, -

The forbidden spot where stood

The tree

Of Good and Evil.

She saw,

The beautiful tree, at once in flower and fruit

All ripe and luscious and tempting

Alluring scent, tantalizing colour

And a sinuous sinewy form wound around

” Eve, Eve, come and taste

The forbidden fruit reserved

Only for the great,”

“No! No!”

“Did God forbid you?” Hissed the sly deceiver

“Yes.”

“He is a jealous master

Aand does not share

His power.

He who eats this Divine Fruit

Would become another God

Don’t you remember?

 The dream-state

Of your birth?

Eat! Eat!

Adam and Eve,

Gods in the Garden of Eden”

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Eve took the fruit

The red juice spurted out

As her white teeth

Bit greedily.

And when Adam woke

He found a strange

Attraction in the veiled secrecy

Of Eve’s eyes

Which he had not seen before.

“Eat,” said she and Adam ate

Fascinated by the scent

Of the fruit 

On her lips.

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At eventide,

In the shades of the Garden

Footsteps .

“Adam! Adam! Where are you?”

Eve & Adam

Looking at each other

Find

Fear, for the first time

And the darkness and separation

Of guilt

Torment

Hide! Hide!

The nakedness

Shorn of the garment of Glory.

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